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- The Confederate States of America (1861–1865) started with an agrarian-based economy that relied heavily on slave-worked plantations for the production of cotton for export to Europe and to the northern US. If classed as an independent country, the area of the Confederate States would have ranked as the fourth-richest country of the world in 1860. But, when the Union began its blockade of Confederate ports in the summer of 1861, exports of cotton fell 95 percent and the South had to restructure itself to emphasize the production of food and munitions for internal use. After losing control of its main rivers and ports, the Confederacy had to depend for transport on a delicate railroad system that, with few repairs being made, no new equipment, and destructive raids, crumbled away. The financial infrastructure collapsed during the war as inflation destroyed banks and forced a move toward a barter economy for civilians. The Confederate government seized needed supplies and livestock (paying with certificates that were promised to be paid off after the war, but never were). By 1865, the Confederate economy was in ruins. (en)
- Los Estados Confederados de América tenían una economía de base agraria gracias al trabajo esclavo en las plantaciones de algodón para su exportación a Europa y norte de Estados Unidos. Si se clasifica como nación independiente, habría sido el cuarto país más rico del mundo en 1860. Cuando la Unión bloqueó sus puertos en el verano de 1861, las exportaciones de algodón se redujeron en un 95% y el Sur tuvo que reestructurarse para hacer hincapié en la producción de alimentos y de municiones. Después de perder el control de sus principales ríos y puertos, tuvo que depender de un sistema ferroviario que, con algunas reparaciones, equipos anticuados y redadas federales, se derrumbó enseguida. La infraestructura financiera se derrumbó durante la guerra por la inflación que destruyó los bancos y obligó a avanzar hacia una economía de trueque entre la población civil. El gobierno se ocupó de los suministros necesarios y la ganadería (con el pago de los certificados que se suponía que se liquidarían una vez acabara la guerra, pero nunca se dieron). En 1865 la economía estaba en ruinas. (es)
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- Why did the Confederate government not undertake more external loans?...The other, more subtle, potential explanation for a small amount of external borrowing is the issuing of war debt presents a moral hazard, which rises starkly if, as in the case of the American Confederacy, lenders can expect that defeat would result in debt repudiation. (en)
- ...the seceded South, even before the outbreak of hostilities, was faced with the necessity of securing the basic materials of war. It lacked guns, cannon, and munitions of every sort; it lacked most of the raw materials from which they could be manufactured. The South needed clothing, medicine, tools, and, later on, food. It lacked the factories, too, with which to manufacture the sinews of war, and the machinery and skilled labor with which to establish and run factories. As a result the Confederacy, at the very start, turned it eyes towards Europe. (en)
- The only manufactures over which the confederate government sought control were those which directly supplied the needs of the army. These were two classes: arms and munitions, which were under the charge of the ordnance bureau; and a more diverse group which included clothing, blankets, tents, shoes, wagons, saddles, and harness, which for the most part were provided by the quartermaster's bureau. (en)
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- — Journal of Dolly Sumner Lunt Burge. Mrs. Burge, a Maine native, widow of Thomas Burge, lived on the Burge Farm near Covington, Georgia, about 40 miles east of Atlanta. (en)
- — Charles W. Ramsdell (en)
- — William Diamond (en)
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- The Confederate States of America (1861–1865) started with an agrarian-based economy that relied heavily on slave-worked plantations for the production of cotton for export to Europe and to the northern US. If classed as an independent country, the area of the Confederate States would have ranked as the fourth-richest country of the world in 1860. But, when the Union began its blockade of Confederate ports in the summer of 1861, exports of cotton fell 95 percent and the South had to restructure itself to emphasize the production of food and munitions for internal use. After losing control of its main rivers and ports, the Confederacy had to depend for transport on a delicate railroad system that, with few repairs being made, no new equipment, and destructive raids, crumbled away. The f (en)
- Los Estados Confederados de América tenían una economía de base agraria gracias al trabajo esclavo en las plantaciones de algodón para su exportación a Europa y norte de Estados Unidos. Si se clasifica como nación independiente, habría sido el cuarto país más rico del mundo en 1860. Cuando la Unión bloqueó sus puertos en el verano de 1861, las exportaciones de algodón se redujeron en un 95% y el Sur tuvo que reestructurarse para hacer hincapié en la producción de alimentos y de municiones. (es)
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- Economy of the Confederate States of America (en)
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