"Over two hundred and fifty thousand Americans died on U.S. soil in the war between the North and the South..."
1. 600,000 dead IS "Over two hundred and fifty thousand", mathematically speaking - and I'm a mathematician.
2. The battle deaths for both sides were 200,000+, and I'd be inclined to count later deaths from battle-inflicted wounds, from an historian's viewpoint.
"No federal income tax could have been perpetrated on a confederacy"
You'll have to prove that Memminger's income tax was a "federal income tax", considering that the Confederacy was not the federal government. Please detail your proof with copious notes.
Hey, but one out of three ain't bad. ;-)
Then as a mathematician you would appreciate accuracy. I could say over 50 people were killed on both sides of the civil war. That, too, would be mathematically correct but it would present an inaccurate picture of the total cost of the war.
You'll have to prove that Memminger's income tax was a "federal income tax", considering that the Confederacy was not the federal government.
I wouldn't know quite how to classify the confederate government. Given the lack of contested elections and the disregard for the constitution then I suppose that it most closely resembled a banana republic dictatorship. So can we refer to the Memminger tax as a banana tax?