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Without this the effort to preserve the Union would have utterly failed.
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gutenberg.orgJohn Sherman: “Without this the effort to preserve the Union would have utterly failed.”
Editor's note · Context
Sherman asserts that without the issuance of paper money, the Union's efforts during the Civil War would have failed.
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