Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 4B

16. George B. Cowan, “Unfinished Work of the War,” Forum (January 1889): 516-25.

Delineation of two tasks that were still unaccomplished thirty-five years after the end of the Civil War: 1) paying for the cost of the war (i.e., eliminating the national debt), and 2) uniting the country (i.e., ending bitter sectionalism).