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THE HALL CARBINE AFFAIR J.P.Morgan and Civil War Profiteering

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THE HALL CARBINE AFFAIR J.P.Morgan and Civil War Profiteering

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THE HALL CARBINE AFFAIR by R.Gordon Wasson, 1948 revised ed, b&w portraits,190pp with Index, During the American Civil War, John Pierpont Morgan financed the purchase of 5,000 surplus rifles at $3.50 each, which were then sold back to the government for $22 each. The incident became renowned as a scandalous example of wartime profiteering. Interest in the incident was revived in 1910 as an indictment of Morgan BOX 5

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