1893 Civil War LIFE AND TIMES OF C.G. MEMMINGER Confederate Treasurer CSA REBEL
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1893 Civil War LIFE AND TIMES OF C.G. MEMMINGER Confederate Treasurer CSA REBEL:
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1893 Civil War LIFE AND TIMES OF C.G. MEMMINGER Confederate Treasurer CSA REBEL
RARE IN NICE COND! MEMMINGER SIGNED SC SECESSION!
BY
HENRY D. CAPERS, A.M.
RICHMOND, VA.:
EVERETT WADDEY CO., PUBLISHERS
1893
Life and times of the Confederate Treasurer who also played a great role in the secession of South Carolina and the southern states from the Union.
\"Best account of the Confederacy\'s finances; also brings out the growth of secession thought from 1832 to the formation of the Confederacy\" Howes C-125
First Edition.
Original cloth, lettered in gilt.
604 pages.
Size: 9 1/4\" x 6 1/4\"
References: Howes C-125
Christopher Gustavus Memminger (January 9, 1803 – March 7, 1888) was a German-born American politician and a founding father of the Confederate States.
As the first Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury, Memminger was the primary author of the economic policies of the Jefferson Davis administration.
Memminger was considered a moderate on the secession issue, but after Lincoln\'s election, Memminger decided secession was necessary. When South Carolina seceded from the United States in 1860, Memminger was asked to write the Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union which outlined the reasons for secession. When other states also seceded, Memminger was selected as a South Carolina delegate to the provisional congress which formed the Confederate States of America, and was the chairman of the committee which drafted the Confederate Constitution. The twelve-man committee produced a provisional constitution in only four days.
When Jefferson Davis formed his first cabinet, Memminger was chosen as Secretary of the Treasury on February 21, 1861. It was a difficult task, in view of the financial challenges facing the Confederacy. Memminger attempted to finance the government initially via bonds and tariffs (and confiscation of gold from the United States Mint in New Orleans), but soon found himself forced to more extreme measures such as income taxation and fiat currency. Memminger had been a supporter of hard currency before the war, but found himself issuing increasingly devalued paper money, which by war\'s end was worth less than two percent of its face value in gold.
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Condition: Very Good
Tight Binding. Clean Pages and Covers. Moderate wear.
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1893 Civil War LIFE AND TIMES OF C.G. MEMMINGER Confederate Treasurer CSA REBEL:
$78.00