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The illegal theft and resale of goods made it more difficult to wage total war.
Key point: All militaries have had to contend with supply issues and war profiteering. Here is how the Union dealt with these issues.
“For sugar the government often got sand; for coffee, rye; for leather, something no better than brown paper; for sound horses and mules, spavined beasts and dying donkeys; and for serviceable muskets and pistols, the experimental failures of sanguine inventors, or the refuse of shops and foreign armories.” So wrote Harper’s Monthly journalist Robert Tomes in July 1864. What Tomes was describing was far from uncommon during the American Civil War, a war that many have put on high moral ground beneath the umbrella of righteousness. But in that war, as with most wars throughout history, thievery and corruption ran rampant. This corruption, involving not only suppliers and manufacturers in the North but also high government officials, resulted in the unnecessary loss
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Empty pint glasses sit on the top of beer pumps of the Peveril Of The Peak pub (Image: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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