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A Business Sidelight on the Civil War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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The history of markets, prices, speculations, of mercantile ventures to new territory as it is conquered, during any great war, would make fascinating reading, and fill volumes. A chapter of business history during the Civil War could be written from a folder of old letters discovered among the private business papers of Charles W. Wilder, a partner of the firm of Wilder and Estabrook, which later became Estabrook and Eaton.

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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1930