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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Financial Aspects of the American Civil War: War News, Price Risk, and the Processing of Information

Abstract

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The final chapter investigates the doubling of Confederate cotton bond prices between December 1863 and September 1864 despite Confederate defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July 1863. Offsetting adverse war news were movements in the price of the cotton collateral of the war bonds.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Economics
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Weidenmier, Marc D.
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Neal, Larry

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI9945023
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85656

Chain of custody

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www.ideals.illinois.edu/oai-pmh
Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Weidenmier, Marc D.. Financial Aspects of the American Civil War: War News, Price Risk, and the Processing of Information. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/85656