Came across this interesting, little-known (and
not-known previously to me) factoid about the War between the States, care of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About the
Civil War by Frank Vandiver:
“Confederate finances were shaken by various ills.
Inflation, of course, sapped monetary strength, as did the misfortunes of
battle. Perhaps the most constant threat came from Northern printing presses. The
Federal Treasury aimed a deliberate counterfeiting campaign against the Rebels,
and although the South did good engraving, copying Southern paper money proved
a fairly easy challenge. Part of the ruinous inflation stemmed from bogus
bills.”
Very interesting …
Seems to me that this would make a great background for
Hollywood to spell a tense, compact love-in-the-time-of-war story. Plus it’s
just so damn clever.
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