The Confederate Government pledged the export tax on cotton to give credit to their bonds. They next forbade the shipment of cotton to the ports from which it might be exported.

Ever since the Civil War, various British investors have hopefully and stubbornly clung to $120,000,000 par value of the bonds of the Confederate Government. The bonds were originally floated ...

The Civil War ended in 1865, but for Minnesota and the one-time rebel state of Virginia, the battle continues over a prized ...

War bonds trace their history as far back as the Revolutionary War, and helped finance efforts in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War as well. However, it wasn’t until 1917, ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Author David Thomson blended Civil War-era financial and political history to show how the marketing and sale of bonds helped ensure foreign countries' vested interest in the Union's success. The ...

Based on accounts of how this war is going, you might as well invest in Confederate war bonds — one is no less a lost cause than the other was. Unlike the author, ...

EDENTON, N.C.—Rod Phillips and Michael Dean, a pair of white 70-something retirees, take opposing sides in the Civil War, usually between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturdays. They are separated by a ...

Financing the War How did the United States pay for the Civil War? According to Prof. Thomson (Sacred Heart University), financier Jay Cooke was the critical actor in helping save the Union by ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American history, but it's more misunderstood than you would think. We're breaking down some myths about Lincoln, women soldiers, racist ...

EDENTON, N.C.—Rod Phillips and Michael Dean, a pair of white 70-something retirees, take opposing sides in the Civil War, usually between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturdays. They are separated by a ...

War bonds trace their history as far back as the Revolutionary War, and helped finance efforts in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War as well. However, it wasn’t until 1917, ...