Green-Back to his Country Friends.
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05772 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York, New York Type: Pamphlet Date: 20 June 1862 Pagination: 17 p. ; 22.8 x 14 cm. Order a Copy
Addressed to the constituents of the 37th Congress and signed by "Green-back." Concerns the issuance of paper money during the Civil War. First edition in original bright green wrapper, as issued. Signature of John R. Bartlett on cover. (Possibly John Russell Bartlett, the former boundary commissioner, explorer, author and ethnographer; he served as Rhode Island's secretary of state from 1855-1872.)
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