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Showing posts with label Money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Money. Show all posts
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, August 8, 1861

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"I am monarch of all I survey." Last night, intelligence being received that an attack was expected on Washington; we were ordered...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Diary of 5th Sergeant Osborn H. Oldroyd: May 2, 1863

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As the sun peeped over the eastern horizon, we slipped out of camp and went our way rejoicing. Oh, how beautiful the morning; calm and plea...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

Diary of 1st Sergeant John L. Ransom: May 13, 1864

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Rainy morning. We are guarded by an Alabama regiment, who are about to leave for the front. Georgia militia to take their places. Making pr...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: April 9, 1862

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Rain; cooler than yesterday. Company B sent off to effect a crossing over Piney. Ten refugees from Monroe [County], escaping [Governor] Let...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Diary of Mary Boykin Chesnut: March 21, 1865

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CHESTER, S. C. – Another flitting has occurred. Captain Ogden came for me; the splendid Childs was true as steel to the last. Surely he is ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Bank Statement

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NEW YORK, April 21. Decrease in loans, $342,208; increase in specie, $76,860; do circulation, $59,820; increase in deposits, $1,420,277. The...
Sunday, June 7, 2009

Friend Claggett, of the Keokuk Constitution . . .

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. . . devotes more than a column to the small article of fifteen lines on currency printed in this paper the other day, and takes occasion t...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008

The Value of Rebel Money

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Money, estimated by the gold standard, is now worth about eight cents on the dollar. – The rebels have fixed a standard, however, by which t...