Complex sentence: Meanwhile, in New York, Lamar had become a valued contact for Southern state governments, arranging loans, printing bonds and, as the war neared, buying semi-obsolete rifles from the federal arsenal for the states of Georgia and South Carolina.
Split into simpler sentences: Meanwhile, in New York, Lamar had become a valued contact for Southern state governments. Lamar arranged loans, printed bonds and, as the war neared, buying semi-obsolete rifles from the federal arsenal for the states of Georgia and South Carolina.