If anything I bent over backwards giving the CSA a better tax system starting in 1869.
5/1864 Hood doesn't backstab Johnston at Casseville and attacks as ordered. Johnston is able to stall Sherman long enough that Atlanta doesn't fall until after the election. Little Mac wins the election.
12/64-1/65 Johnston puts his army in front of Shermans and is able to stave off defeat until Little Mac takes office
2/65 Little Mac replaces "hard war" Lincoln men such as Grant and Sherman with "soft war" generals such as Banks. Thinking himself a great general he interferes with fighting going on. Due to his bungling the Union begins retreating everywhere.
11/66 The elections result in large numbers of Peace Democrats The war ends with a treaty that allows free passage down the Mississippi and the Union winds up holding TN and WV.
1/67 with thousands of CSA soldiers returning home crops start being planted over the CSA. The unemployment rate soars in CSA cities not because there is a lack of work to do but that there is a lack of money to pay people. Many of the new jobs in the cities involve cleaning up all the rubble the war caused.
2/67 Some of the rails reopen as track is relaid. Most of the track comes from canabilizing the system. Mostly from areas already cut off and remote.
3/67 Food prices start dropping as hoarders start open up their storage bins to sell before the price crashes when the crops come in. Prices are still VERY HIGH as compared to before the war. The price of salt starts dropping quickly as the salt from Saltville starts being delivered elsewhere.
5/67 The notes come due and the CSA has nowhere near enough money to pay them. The CSA "renegotiates" (IOW take this deal or get nothing) the notes extending them to 2 years and reduces the debt to 75% par. This causes a panic. Inflation soars again to 30% a month.
6/67 As no one will borrow money to the CSA and their is little money to tax the CSA finances its government with 80% fiat currency and 20% taxes. Inflation soars to 40% a month.
7/67 The first crop that the CSA has in peace time comes in. Due to lack of capital it is far poorer than 1860 but it is better than any year post-1862. It now takes about $10,000 CSA to = $1 USA and everyone who can will exchange CSA money for USA. PCI of the Confederacy is equal to that it had in 1810.
1868-1869 With Lee too ill Joesoph Johnston is elected president. His advisors tell him the only thing that will save the confederacy's finances is a direct tax. Johnston pushes hard for the amendment and the amendment passes and Johnston quickly has congress pass a 1% tax per year on slaves, a 10% tax on slave sales, a 15% tax in kind on cotton and tobacco. Inflation drops drastically. Planters start replacing tobbacco and cotton with foodstuffs which aren't taxed helping prevent previous food shortages.
1870 CSA starts really recovering. PCI is equal to that of 1820. UR dropping quickly as money starts to have some worth.For the first time since 1867 the CSA can sell bonds but at high 11.5% a month with inflation still running 10% a month that is a real rate of about 20% a year. The CSA borrows a little money to establish credit.
1872 After importing railroad equipment from the UK the CSA finally has rails as good as it had in 1845.
1874 Hood elected president.
1876 Northern Businessmen start buying assets in the CSA. CSA virtually becomes a US colony slowly as everything of value is bought by US business men.
5/1864 Hood doesn't backstab Johnston at Casseville and attacks as ordered. Johnston is able to stall Sherman long enough that Atlanta doesn't fall until after the election. Little Mac wins the election.
12/64-1/65 Johnston puts his army in front of Shermans and is able to stave off defeat until Little Mac takes office
2/65 Little Mac replaces "hard war" Lincoln men such as Grant and Sherman with "soft war" generals such as Banks. Thinking himself a great general he interferes with fighting going on. Due to his bungling the Union begins retreating everywhere.
11/66 The elections result in large numbers of Peace Democrats The war ends with a treaty that allows free passage down the Mississippi and the Union winds up holding TN and WV.
1/67 with thousands of CSA soldiers returning home crops start being planted over the CSA. The unemployment rate soars in CSA cities not because there is a lack of work to do but that there is a lack of money to pay people. Many of the new jobs in the cities involve cleaning up all the rubble the war caused.
2/67 Some of the rails reopen as track is relaid. Most of the track comes from canabilizing the system. Mostly from areas already cut off and remote.
3/67 Food prices start dropping as hoarders start open up their storage bins to sell before the price crashes when the crops come in. Prices are still VERY HIGH as compared to before the war. The price of salt starts dropping quickly as the salt from Saltville starts being delivered elsewhere.
5/67 The notes come due and the CSA has nowhere near enough money to pay them. The CSA "renegotiates" (IOW take this deal or get nothing) the notes extending them to 2 years and reduces the debt to 75% par. This causes a panic. Inflation soars again to 30% a month.
6/67 As no one will borrow money to the CSA and their is little money to tax the CSA finances its government with 80% fiat currency and 20% taxes. Inflation soars to 40% a month.
7/67 The first crop that the CSA has in peace time comes in. Due to lack of capital it is far poorer than 1860 but it is better than any year post-1862. It now takes about $10,000 CSA to = $1 USA and everyone who can will exchange CSA money for USA. PCI of the Confederacy is equal to that it had in 1810.
1868-1869 With Lee too ill Joesoph Johnston is elected president. His advisors tell him the only thing that will save the confederacy's finances is a direct tax. Johnston pushes hard for the amendment and the amendment passes and Johnston quickly has congress pass a 1% tax per year on slaves, a 10% tax on slave sales, a 15% tax in kind on cotton and tobacco. Inflation drops drastically. Planters start replacing tobbacco and cotton with foodstuffs which aren't taxed helping prevent previous food shortages.
1870 CSA starts really recovering. PCI is equal to that of 1820. UR dropping quickly as money starts to have some worth.For the first time since 1867 the CSA can sell bonds but at high 11.5% a month with inflation still running 10% a month that is a real rate of about 20% a year. The CSA borrows a little money to establish credit.
1872 After importing railroad equipment from the UK the CSA finally has rails as good as it had in 1845.
1874 Hood elected president.
1876 Northern Businessmen start buying assets in the CSA. CSA virtually becomes a US colony slowly as everything of value is bought by US business men.
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