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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 , was chartered to the government for four months for sixty thou- sand dollars . The Salvor , a captured blockade - runner , sold by the government at auction , was purchased by Clyde , of Philadelphia , for twelve thousand dollars ...
... dollars , was chartered to the government for four months for sixty thou- sand dollars . The Salvor , a captured blockade - runner , sold by the government at auction , was purchased by Clyde , of Philadelphia , for twelve thousand dollars ...
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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 ...
Contents
MEN AND HORSES | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FAntasies | 25 |
THE UNWILLING Soldier | 38 |
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