Wow. The New York Times! If the New York Times says it, it obviously is true. No one should ever disagree with the New York Times.
But if you say it, without any support at all, it should be taken as gospel, right?
The New York Times of 1863 was not the New York Times of 2010, But I can find plenty of other support that the scrip the confederates handed out was considered worthless. Would you like to see it? How about this?
For nearly a week, Chambersburg and all the southern part of of Franklin county was occupied by the rebel forces, busy in gathering horses, which were regarded as contraband of war, and in seizing whatever goods of every variety that could be of use to them, pretending payment by delivering in exchange their worthless confederate scrip."--The Battle of Gettysburg, Samuel Pennington Bates, 1875