[PeaRidge]

Non, the Federal government spent about $60 million on its wonderful work in 1861.

Two questions:

1.How much of that was spent on military, necessary infrastructure?

2. How much do you think it would take to run the Confederacy?

[Non-Sequitur]

In the world of 1860, without welfare, revenue sharing and the rest, I imagine that the military took much of the federal budget with navigational improvement, transportation, federal debt and the like taking up the rest. Since the south was trying to form a government from scratch, create a military many times larger than the Federal one, and would have had to fund her own infrastructure then I don't think that it is reasonable to assume that her budget would have approached the $60 million mark initially. It probably would have declined after a while, assuming peace between north and south, but initial expenses would have been high.