The Boston Economy During the Civil War |
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Page 107
... Bostonians could at least hope that their city would be an in- portant central link in the chain of commerce which saw the American West as one extremity and Europe and other places in the world as the other . Early in the war Bostonians ...
... Bostonians could at least hope that their city would be an in- portant central link in the chain of commerce which saw the American West as one extremity and Europe and other places in the world as the other . Early in the war Bostonians ...
Page 143
... Bostonians to alter the direction and scope of Boston's commerce . In part at least the enterprises revealed wishes to compensate for the loss of the South , but they represented , too , locks by which Bostonians hoped to seal the ...
... Bostonians to alter the direction and scope of Boston's commerce . In part at least the enterprises revealed wishes to compensate for the loss of the South , but they represented , too , locks by which Bostonians hoped to seal the ...
Page 361
... Bostonians back to the days before the war . Economically , a wide gap separated the two periods . As the nation split asunder in 1560 , Bostonians joined their countrymen in fear and trembling at the ecɔnomic , as well as the political ...
... Bostonians back to the days before the war . Economically , a wide gap separated the two periods . As the nation split asunder in 1560 , Bostonians joined their countrymen in fear and trembling at the ecɔnomic , as well as the political ...
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Advertiser American APPENDIX April April 12 August Baker Library Banker banks Board of Trade boots and shoes Boston Board Boston merchants Bostonians British cent charter cited hereafter city government Clothing Commercial Bulletin committee commodities Company Confederate Congress Continued Name corporations cotton December December 19 December 21 decline East Boston East Boston Ferry economic editor England enterprise Faneuil Hall February February 25 foreign gold Greenbacks History of Greenbacks Holdings Gain Ibid important increase Individual or Firm iron January January 25 July June labor leather legislation listed No occ manufacturing March March 23 marine Massachusetts mills Name of Individual Navy northern November November 17 November 28 number of vessels occupation listed October operation Orleans paper ports Railroad rates road secession September Shipping List South southern statistics steam steamers Steamship supply tion tonnage tons Transcript Union wartime West Wharf William Wool dealers workingmen York