Some years back some freeper during one of these civil war re-enactments mentioned a book published some few years before the war that was fascinating. Whoever it was actually posted some screenshots fro the book. It was a very scholarly piece quoting all kinds of trade and banking facts and it predicted the war would come in the next 5 years because the New York Banks were draining the SOuth’s resources (sort of like “sending jobs to China, I guess, when yo think about it.)
Anyway, I didn’t take note of the book and have tried to find it again every since to no avail.
“The Impending Crisis of the South” by Hinton Helper.