Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (David K. Thomson - CH) dvd In Memory of Self and

In Memory of Self and Comrades dramatizes Colley’s fate as a wounded soldier mustered out before the war’s conclusion

In a wholly original way

Mustered into Company F of the Pennsylvania 49th Volunteers in September 1861

and the contents of a never-before-seen contemporary scrapbook to explain how the country descended into civil war

Sherman's Union forces came ever nearer the city

Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union (David K. Thomson - CH) dvd In Memory of Self andby David K. Thomson How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife? This was the question that loomed before the Philadelphia financial house of Jay Cooke & Company, entrusted by the US government with an unprecedented sale of bonds to finance the Union war effort in the early days of the American Civil War. How the government and its agents marketed these bonds revealed a version of the war the public was