[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "Neither did the North.
They went to war to get back that pile of money sitting on New York."

The Union never lost it's "pile of money" in New York or anywhere else.
Nor would it have gone to war over that possibility, absent a Confederate assault on Union troops in Union Fort Sumter.

[DiogenesLamp]

The Union never lost it's "pile of money" in New York or anywhere else.

Then how did they replace that 238 million dollars they lost? Hmmm?

"Borrowing" is not real money. It is in fact how we got into our current mess. Another disastrous consequence of the Civil War.