THE MAN WHO SOLD YORK, PENNSYLVANIA. AND OTHER STORIES

A.B. Farquhar would go on to be an advisor to President Cleveland and run his successful non consecutive re election campaign.

But prior to that, he was part of a plan to sell out to Confederate army before they reached York and possibly destroy it. For this he'd get some infamy, until Abraham Lincoln stepped in.

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