The fictitious crap is what we have been taught growing up. And you raise it to a fine art.
Following the real economic numbers clarifies what really happened.
Or what passes for real economic numbers in your opinion.
I've raised the debunking of it to a fine art. I guess nobody before thought to create a map showing where the money was going. All it needs is another map showing from where it was coming, and it would make it clearer for people such as yourself to see it.
Once again, the vast majority of that money piled on New York came from the South. That pile of coins is a perfect visual representation of the cause of the war. 200 million dollars in 1860 currency which was about to be lost by New York and Washington DC.