Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
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Category : Military pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Index to War of 1812 Pension Application Files
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
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Category : Military pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Publisher:
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Category : Military pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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The Business of Civil War
Author: Mark R. Wilson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801888832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This wide-ranging, original account of the politics and economics of the giant military supply project in the North reconstructs an important but little-known part of Civil War history. Drawing on new and extensive research in army and business archives, Mark R. Wilson offers a fresh view of the wartime North and the ways in which its economy worked when the Lincoln administration, with unprecedented military effort, moved to suppress the rebellion. This task of equipping and sustaining Union forces fell to career army procurement officers. Largely free from political partisanship or any formal free-market ideology, they created a mixed military economy with a complex contracting system that they pieced together to meet the experience of civil war. Wilson argues that the North owed its victory to these professional military men and their finely tuned relationships with contractors, public officials, and war workers. Wilson also examines the obstacles military bureaucrats faced, many of which illuminated basic problems of modern political economy: the balance between efficiency and equity, the promotion of competition, and the protection of workers' welfare. The struggle over these problems determined the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars; it also redirected American political and economic development by forcing citizens to grapple with difficult questions about the proper relationships among government, business, and labor. Students of the American Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial production and procurement on the home front—long an obscure topic.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801888832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This wide-ranging, original account of the politics and economics of the giant military supply project in the North reconstructs an important but little-known part of Civil War history. Drawing on new and extensive research in army and business archives, Mark R. Wilson offers a fresh view of the wartime North and the ways in which its economy worked when the Lincoln administration, with unprecedented military effort, moved to suppress the rebellion. This task of equipping and sustaining Union forces fell to career army procurement officers. Largely free from political partisanship or any formal free-market ideology, they created a mixed military economy with a complex contracting system that they pieced together to meet the experience of civil war. Wilson argues that the North owed its victory to these professional military men and their finely tuned relationships with contractors, public officials, and war workers. Wilson also examines the obstacles military bureaucrats faced, many of which illuminated basic problems of modern political economy: the balance between efficiency and equity, the promotion of competition, and the protection of workers' welfare. The struggle over these problems determined the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars; it also redirected American political and economic development by forcing citizens to grapple with difficult questions about the proper relationships among government, business, and labor. Students of the American Civil War will welcome this fresh study of military-industrial production and procurement on the home front—long an obscure topic.
History of the Civil War Military Pensions, 1861-1865
Author: John William Oliver
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Category : Military pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
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Category : Military pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5
Author: Samuel Penniman Bates
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1354
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The Little Regiment
Author: Stephen Crane
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Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Record of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-1865
Author: New Jersey. Adjutant-General's Office
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages :
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Index to Georgia Civil War Confederate Pension Files
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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Preliminary Inventory of the Administrative Records of the Bureau of Pensions and the Pension Service
Author: United States. National Archives and Records Service
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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History of Military Pension Legislation in the United States
Author: William Henry Glasson
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Category : Military pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Category : Military pensions
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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New Bedford's Civil War
Author: Earl F. Mulderink
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823243346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront, 1861-1865, and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans.
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823243346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront, 1861-1865, and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans.