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The US Constitution was signed in 1787, and the American Civil War broke out in 1861; is there a census of how many people were alive through that 74 year span? Do any interviews exist of the generation that lived through the birth of the Union and it's near collapse?

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The US Constitution was signed in 1787, and the American Civil War broke out in 1861; is there a census of how many people were alive through that 74 year span? Do any interviews exist of the generation that lived through the birth of the Union and it's near collapse?	4891