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The Costs of the Confederacy


The Costs of the Confederacy - Smithsonian Magazine

In the last decade alone, American taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.

Investigation Finds Millions in Taxpayer Dollars Goes to ...

Alabama taxpayers have also allocated more than $5.6 million to Confederate Memorial Park, which the state's all-white legislature established ...

Lost Cause of the Confederacy - Wikipedia

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy is an American pseudohistorical and historical negationist myth that claims the cause of the Confederate States during the ...

The Civil War Cost | Post-War Changes, Human & Cultural Costs

Over 6.5 billion dollars were spent by both sides combined. In modern times, this would be equivalent to about 90 billion dollars.

The Confederacy Begins to Collapse - Digital History

The Confederacy also suffered rampant inflation. Fearful of undermining support for the war effort, Confederate leaders refused to raise taxes to support the ...

The Civil War's financial battles - The Washington Post

Four years of war cost the South $2 billion. The United States and the Confederacy each tried to raise revenue through higher tariffs and new ...

The Costs of the Confederacy - Bunk History

In the last decade, taxpayers have spent at least $40 million on Confederate monuments and groups that perpetuate racist ideology.

The Economic Cost of the American Civil War - Scholars at Harvard

The economic cost of the American Civil War: Estimates and implications. Journal of. Economic History 35(2): 299-326. Published Version http://www.jstor.org/ ...

Money and Finance in the Confederate States of America – EH.net

The Confederate experience during the American Civil War is no exception. Between January 1861 and April 1865, the Lerner Commodity Price Index of leading ...

Costs Of The Confederacy: Publicly Funded Monuments Omit ...

A new investigation has found more than $40 million in taxpayer dollars have been spent over the past decade on the maintenance and ...

The Costs of the Confederacy - Opus

Instead, American taxpayers are still heavily investing in these tributes today. We have found that, over the past ten years, taxpayers have ...

Cost of removing Confederate monuments in New Orleans - CNN

Mayor Mitch Landrieu originally said the project would cost just $170000 and that private funds would pay for it.

Across the South, efforts to remove Confederate icons carry a price

But renaming the street that honored the first president of the Confederacy came with a cost: It brought a $25,000 fine from the state of ...

Monumental lies - Reveal News

Myths of the Civil War and slavery are being kept alive at Confederate monuments, where visitors hear stories of “benevolent slave owners” and enslaved people ...

[PDF] [PDF] Casualties and Costs of the Civil War

Union Soldier Monthly Salary. Note: Pay was equalized retroactively in June 1864. White. African. American. $13/month. $10/month.

The History of U.S. Public Debt - The Civil War (1861-1865)

In 1860, the year before the American Civil War started, the US Government debt was $64.8 million. Once the war began, debt grew quickly.

Still Funding the Confederacy - Type Investigations

Records show that since 1902, the Commonwealth of Virginia has paid more than $9 million, in today's dollars, to associations and neo- ...

The Cost of War | American Battlefield Trust

The Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict – its 620,000 dead were not equaled by the combined toll of other American conflicts until the ...

The Economics of the Civil War - Minnesota State University Moorhead

No war in American history strained the economic resources of the economy as the Civil War did. Governments on both sides were forced to resort to borrowing on ...

The High Cost of the U.S. Civil War - Barron's

Fort Sumter's shelling ignited a war that made the US government the first to spend over $1 billion in a year.