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Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic by Robert J. Cook, LSU Press, 2011, $48 FESSENDEN STREET, SHELTERED among trees in an exclusive section of Washington, D.C., is the only memorial in the capital to the Republican senator from Maine whose efforts as chairman of the Senate Finance …
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