The Confederate States Of America 1861 1865 PDF Download

Excerpt from The Confederate States of America: 1861 1865; A Financial and Industrial History of the South During the Civil War The Civil War is to the student of our country's history primarily the inevitable culmination of a great political movement, a turning-point in the development of our form of government; or it is the subject of an important chapter in the science of warfare, and treats of the great tactical and technical problems worked out in that memorable conflict. This book neglects both of these points of view almost entirely. It aims to treat the war primarily as a chapter in the economic history of our country, as four years during which the financial and industrial phenomena, affected by the abnormal conditions of the war, were peculiar and worthy of study in throwing light on the working of social forces under similar and also under normal circumstances. No claim of originality is made for such a mode of treatment. Others have written the history of the finances and industries of the North during the war. The South has heretofore been neglected, owing to the paucity of reliable material upon which to base the complementary story. Paper and ink were scarce in the South during the war, and contemporary records are correspondingly rare. 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.