Turning Points during the U.S. Civil War: Views from the Grayback Market

This article introduces a new high-frequency time series of Confederate money prices taken from the newspapers of Richmond and leading cities in the Eastern Confederacy. The new grayback series is tested for turning points. The empirical analysis suggests that turning points in the Confederate grayback market were different from those identified in the Northern greenback market by. It appears that war did not always have symmetric effects on Northern and Southern money prices.

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