Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Secretary of the Treasury estimates . . .

. . . that the expenses of the war up to the 1st July next will not exceed six hundred million dollars, and re recommends to Congress the issuing of twenty five million dollars in treasury notes in denominations under fives.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p. 1

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