Meet General GrantGarden Publishing Company, 1931 - 524 pages |
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... dollar was worth fifty cents in gold ; by August of 1863 , twelve Confederate dollars were exchanged for a dollar of real money ; and a year later the ratio was twenty to one - in other words , by the middle of 1864 a Confederate dollar ...
... dollar was worth fifty cents in gold ; by August of 1863 , twelve Confederate dollars were exchanged for a dollar of real money ; and a year later the ratio was twenty to one - in other words , by the middle of 1864 a Confederate dollar ...
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... dollars in gold could turn it into fifteen hundred dollars in paper money . Then with this fifteen hundred dollars he could buy an equiva- lent amount of six per cent gold bonds . The fifteen hundred dollars in bonds would bring him ninety ...
... dollars in gold could turn it into fifteen hundred dollars in paper money . Then with this fifteen hundred dollars he could buy an equiva- lent amount of six per cent gold bonds . The fifteen hundred dollars in bonds would bring him ninety ...
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... dollars a year in Galena , but he wanted to live in New York , where five thousand dollars , even at that time , did not go very far . But something was being done by his friends . George W. Jones , proprietor of the New York Times ...
... dollars a year in Galena , but he wanted to live in New York , where five thousand dollars , even at that time , did not go very far . But something was being done by his friends . George W. Jones , proprietor of the New York Times ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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