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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  British agents would encourage secession talk with Southerners. They hoped that a split would make the US less powerful. Kind of backfired, because the war left the Union much stronger.

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hey, They had tobacco as well…

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  • DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Actually, I’m surprised that isn’t a bigger talking point in how the war went.

    I’m suddenly curious what the ramifications of a much lower supply of nicotine was on the Union army. Reading Tobacco by Iain Gately, it seems like tobacco was a near necessity (esp among the upper class -which would have been the officers of the armies), so I wonder how many bad decisions were made while one general or captain was going through some major withdrawals.

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