producing sheets of bonds that could be bought by the public and then sold back to the Confederate government at the end of the war for certain percentage gain. I am interested in researching these bonds because I have grown up seeing them in my house for as long as I can remember. My family has always had four prints of Confederate bonds hanging in our house. After having looked at these bonds for so long, I have noticed the intricacies that were put into the design of the bonds, hence why I am very
was the costliest war in American history, including the men that died and the finical cost. Officially, both sides lost 498,333 military lives – 3% of the male population in 1860 . And the financial situations that both sides – the Union and the Confederacy – will have to face will be large and expensive. The South had to build and install a system to fight the war. The North, on the other hand, will have a bigger economy and an effective government fiscal system already in place that will no doubt
The economic, military, and political power of the Union was much greater than the Confederacy. Still, the war did go on for four years. The Confederacy demonstrated itself strong many times. Throughout the war the struggles continuously shifted, and because of that, so did the economic, military, and political strength of both sides. Although both sides saw accomplishments of military successes, at the end of the war, the bigger economy of the north, centralized government and overpowering manpower
In some ways the confederacy is more alive and active today than it was in the 1860s. Arguments over its symbols, its flags, its leaders, its memorials, and its legacy have been almost constant over the past several years. These battles are always about one thing, the meaning of the confederacy. This usually devolves into an “it’s about slavery, it’s about states’ rights” argument with neither side listening to the other, each side convinced that it is right. Nevertheless, the question remains:
reported on battle results and political issues however their reporting was often editorialized. The desire for truth was not an important factor for editors and this allowed newspapers to be turned into propaganda machines for both the Union and Confederacy. Also during the Civil War war photography became a main part of the documentation of war. However due to the shutter speeds of the time the proverbial staged war photo began. The telegraph
At what one might call the climax of the bloodiest war in American history, there were two men who had a bond that was much stronger than this all-consuming war. These men had enough faith in each other and in themselves to help them through the war. Both men were fighting for what they solely believed in and even with their different opinions, they still had each other’s back when they didn’t have each other. The friendship of Lewis Armistead and Winfield Hancock shows that even one of the strongest
resource for the Confederacy was their financial situation. Their unstable finances turned out to set them back more than their lack of industrial capacity. Their economy relied on cotton exports, however a Union blockade made this revenue stream almost nonexistent. To make up for this loss in revenue, the government tried to raise taxes, “but southerners resisted taxation”(Goldfield, The American Journey, 408). The government then sold bonds, but as the Confederacy lost money, bond sales drastically
The prolonged war ultimately led to an economic decline and lack of resources in the Confederacy along with a negative sentiment among southerners (N). Due to the internal demise, the Confederacy could not carry on a war without the support of its home front. Beginning with the onset of the war, differences between the northern and southern economies and resources proved to be detrimental to the Confederacy (N). The north contained the majority of the factories, iron works, and railroads in
wartime.”(19) Southern clergy supported the war effort with actions as well as words. Many joined the ranks as chaplains and others as officers. Through literal interpretations of the Bible, many clergies pointed to the explicit typologies between Confederacy and Biblical Israel. Southern life bred a defense of honor and Yankees were mirror opposites of Southerners. Life in the South demanded grit and resourcefulness, working with one’s hands as well as settling differences the same way. “Southerners
larger issue at hand was the annihilation of the United States of America. The Confederate States of America wanted to break away from the United States and form their own country. The Confederate States of America, or more commonly known as the Confederacy, was formed by seven slave states located in the southern region of the United States. The economy in the southern half of the United States was heavily dependent on agriculture. Running a farm takes a lot of manpower which is why the slave industry