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Report of Historical and Technical Information Relating to the Problem of Interoceanic Communication by Way of the American Isthmus

Author: John T. Sullivan (Writer on interoceanic canals)
Publisher:
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Catalogue of the Library of Congress

Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Catalogue of the Library of Congress ; Index of Subjects, in Two Volumes

Author: U.S. Library of Congress. Catalog. 1869
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Treasure and Empire in the Civil War

Author: Neil P. Chatelain
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476651523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America's mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies advanced to seize the West and its gold and silver reserves, while warships steamed to intercept Panama route ships transporting bullion from California to Panama to New York. United States forces responded by expelling Confederate incursions and solidified territorial control by combating Indigenous populations and enacting laws encouraging frontier settlement. The U.S. Navy patrolled key ports, convoyed treasure ships, and integrated continent-wide intelligence networks in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. This book examines the campaigns to control North America's mineral wealth, linking the Civil War's military, naval, political, diplomatic and economic elements. Included are the hemispheric land and sea adventures involving tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, admiral and explorer Charles Wilkes, renowned sea captain Raphael Semmes, General Henry Sibley, cowboy and mountain man Kit Carson, Indigenous leaders Mangas Coloradas and Geronimo, writer and miner Mark Twain, and Mormon leader Brigham Young.