Revenuers Pose with Still

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During the Civil War the U.S. Congress created the Internal Revenue Service to collect taxes on liquor, tobacco, and other "luxuries." The production of moonshine was not in and of itself illegal, but attempts by producers to avoid paying the federal tax were. "Revenuers" were what moonshiners called the federal agents who sought to enforce the liquor law.

Revenuers Pose with Still

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