The famous whiskey-to-generals story remains lore, not an authenticated quotation. The text contains constitutional and emancipation chronology problems, and unlocated quantities are not primary economic data.
Civil War and excise
The Civil War discussion links whiskey to supply disruption, manpower, trade, taxation and medicinal use. It also recounts familiar Grant, Lincoln and whiskey anecdotes and offers estimated production and price changes.
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Civil War and excise
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Evidence
The Civil War discussion links whiskey to supply disruption, manpower, trade, taxation and medicinal use. It also recounts familiar Grant, Lincoln and whiskey anecdotes and offers estimated production and price changes.
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Supplied PDF screens 79–86; Civil War and excise. Screen locators are not printed-page numbers.
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Annotation
The famous whiskey-to-generals story remains lore, not an authenticated quotation. The text contains constitutional and emancipation chronology problems, and unlocated quantities are not primary economic data.