Download or read book Confederate Finance written by Richard Cecil Todd and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate Finance, first published in 1954, looks at the measures taken by the Confederacy to stabilize its currency and offer a basis for foreign exchange. By the end of the Civil War, the Confederacy had resorted to a number of financial expedients, including the most desperate of measures. The Confederate government seized the property of enemies, levied direct taxes, and placed duties on exports and imports. In addition, donations and gifts were gratefully accepted. All the while, treasury notes flooded the market, and loans were floated in an attempt to continue the Confederacy's existence. Richard Cecil Todd shows how these measures were used by the Confederate government to meet its obligations at home and abroad. He also discusses the organization and personnel of the Confederate Treasury Department.
Download or read book The Confederate States of America 1861 1865 written by John Christopher Schwab and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From the Sentinel To the Congress of the Confederate States Letters relating to finance written by Confederate States of America. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financial Failure and Confederate Defeat written by Douglas B. Ball and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facts and Suggestions Relative to Finance Currency Addressed to the President of the Confederate States written by Duff Green and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confederate States Paper Money written by Arlie R. Slabaugh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10th Edition of Confederate States Paper Money covers both Confederate and Southern States issues of the American Civil War (1861 - 1865) and the Reconstruction period • Know the value of your notes; prices are listed for six grades. • Exclusive photographs • Date on uncut sheets, advertising notes, errors, bogus and enigmatical issues. • The most complete coverage of Upham and other facsimile notes. • Fascinating information about the Confederacy and the individual Southern States. Fore more than 40 years this catalog has been a primary source of data on Confederate currency.
Download or read book Fraudulent Finance written by Judith Ann Benner and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confederate Currency written by Pierre Fricke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On February 4, 1861, the Confederate States of America was formed, and almost immediately the first Confederate notes were printed – the famous “Montgomery” notes. These would be followed by many designs over the next four years. The seventy different designs or “type” notes are eagerly sought today by collectors, historians and family historians, and a collection of Confederate currency offers fascinating insights into the tumultuous Civil-War period. Pierre Fricke examines these series of Confederate notes, highlighting the history and circumstances in which they were created. This easy-to-read, fun and educational book offers an introduction to the often beautiful notes that financed the Confederacy.
Download or read book The Confederate States of America 1861 1865 written by John Christopher Schwab and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865: A Financial and Industrial History of the South During the Civil War The President at once appointed his Cabinet. Rhett and Barnwell were mentioned as available for the treasury port folio. Barnwell was the President's choice for the position, but he yielded to the wishes Of the South Carolina delegation and appointed C. G. Memminger Secretary Of the Treasury. Mr. Memminger, a German by birth, had been brought up in the family Of Governor Thomas Bennett of South Caro lina, and had studied and practised law in Charleston. For many years a member Of the State legislature, he had inter ested himself particularly in questions Of popular education, and had also given some attention to financial and banking matters. He had displayed no peculiar fitness for the posi tion of organizer and head Of the Confederate finances; and, it must be said, while holding that position, his leadership evoked much hostile criticism and little commendation. His rival in the management of the Federal finances, Salmon P. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book FACTS AND SUGGESTIONS RELATIVE TO FINANCE AND CURRENCY written by DUFF. GREEN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Confederate States of America 1861 1865 written by John Christopher Schwab and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Debtor Diplomacy written by Jay Sexton and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of foreign capital's role in the American Civil War.
Download or read book Ways and Means written by Roger Lowenstein and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.” —Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal “Ways and Means, an account of the Union’s financial policies, examines a subject long overshadowed by military narratives . . . Lowenstein is a lucid stylist, able to explain financial matters to readers who lack specialized knowledge.” —Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review From renowned journalist and master storyteller Roger Lowenstein, a revelatory financial investigation into how Lincoln and his administration used the funding of the Civil War as the catalyst to centralize the government and accomplish the most far-reaching reform in the country’s history Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Even before the Confederacy’s secession, the United States Treasury had run out of money. The government had no authority to raise taxes, no federal bank, no currency. But amid unprecedented troubles Lincoln saw opportunity—the chance to legislate in the centralizing spirit of the “more perfect union” that had first drawn him to politics. With Lincoln at the helm, the United States would now govern “for” its people: it would enact laws, establish a currency, raise armies, underwrite transportation and higher education, assist farmers, and impose taxes for them. Lincoln believed this agenda would foster the economic opportunity he had always sought for upwardly striving Americans, and which he would seek in particular for enslaved Black Americans. Salmon Chase, Lincoln’s vanquished rival and his new secretary of the Treasury, waged war on the financial front, levying taxes and marketing bonds while desperately battling to contain wartime inflation. And while the Union and Rebel armies fought increasingly savage battles, the Republican-led Congress enacted a blizzard of legislation that made the government, for the first time, a powerful presence in the lives of ordinary Americans. The impact was revolutionary. The activist 37th Congress legislated for homesteads and a transcontinental railroad and involved the federal government in education, agriculture, and eventually immigration policy. It established a progressive income tax and created the greenback—paper money. While the Union became self-sustaining, the South plunged into financial free fall, having failed to leverage its cotton wealth to finance the war. Founded in a crucible of anticentralism, the Confederacy was trapped in a static (and slave-based) agrarian economy without federal taxing power or other means of government financing, save for its overworked printing presses. This led to an epic collapse. Though Confederate troops continued to hold their own, the North’s financial advantage over the South, where citizens increasingly went hungry, proved decisive; the war was won as much (or more) in the respective treasuries as on the battlefields. Roger Lowenstein reveals the largely untold story of how Lincoln used the urgency of the Civil War to transform a union of states into a nation. Through a financial lens, he explores how this second American revolution, led by Lincoln, his cabinet, and a Congress studded with towering statesmen, changed the direction of the country and established a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Download or read book The History of the Confederate Treasury written by Ernest Ashton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bonds of War written by David K. Thomson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife? This was the question that loomed before the Philadelphia financial house of Jay Cooke & Company,&8239;entrusted&8239;by the US government with an unprecedented sale of bonds to finance the Union war effort in the early days of the American Civil War.&8239;How the government and its agents marketed these bonds revealed a version of the war the public was willing to buy and buy into, based not just in the full faith and credit of the United States but also in the success of its armies and its long-term vision for open markets. From Maine to California, and in foreign halls of power and economic influence,&8239;thousands of agents were deployed to&8239;sell&8239;a clear message: Union victory was unleashing the American economy itself. This fascinating work of&8239;financial and political history&8239;during&8239;the Civil War&8239;era&8239;shows&8239;how the marketing and sale of bonds crossed the Atlantic to Europe and beyond, helping ensure foreign countries' vested interest in the Union's success. Indeed, David K. Thomson demonstrates how Europe, and ultimately all corners of the globe, grew deeply interdependent on American finance during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the American Civil War.&8239;
Download or read book Confederate Finance and Purchasing in Great Britain written by Richard I. Lester and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Facts and Suggestions Relative to Finance Currency Addressed to the President of the Confederate States written by Duff Green and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
