Provides a comprehensive overview of the Union financial policies during the American Civil War. This work argues that the revenue imperative, the need to keep pace with the burgeoning expenses of the conflict, governed the development of fiscal policy.

• Cover 2
• Half Title 3
• Title Page 5
• Copyright Page 6
• Table of Contents 7
• List of Tables and Graphs 9
• Acknowledgements 11
• Dedication 12
• Introduction 13
• 1 Fiscal Federalism 21
• 2 The ‘Exhausted Condition of the Treasury’ 47
• 3 The Magnitude of the Contest 73
• 4 The Poverty of the Treasury 93
• 5 Sparing the Necessaries of Life 115
• 6 The Most Burdened of them All 145