Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Secrets of Internal Revenue: Exposing
When men sharpen their swords for slaughter, they simultaneously sharpen their wits for plunder. The scent of human blood stimulates avarice, greed, and covetous ness; and the wounded and dead, friend and foe alike, are stripped and despoiled after the battle by merce nary camp-followers and adventurers. During the late civil war the spirit of avarice was rampant in the community, and made its prey of public and private property. Ravenous harpies fattened on the necessities of the Government and speculated on the health, comfort and lives of the patriotic soldiers. Ofttimes the Federal troops were clad in ?imsy and unserviceable apparel, made of refuse trash, and palmed off on the military authorities by merciless cormorants.
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