are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared. … At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, and shut out from the markets of Europe by blockade as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. See also Confederate war finance Confederate States dollar King Cotton Footnotes Bibliography General reference Carter, Susan B., ed. The Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition (5 vols), 2006. Coulter, E. Merton. The Confederate States of America, 1861–1865, (1950), survey Current, Richard N., et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 Volume set; also 1 vol abridged version); articles by scholars. Heidler, David S., et al. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, (2002). 2740 pages () Schwab, John Christopher. The Confederate States of America, 1861–1865: A Financial and Industrial History of the South (1901) good survey of finances by a Yale economics professor; online free Thomas, Emory M. Confederate Nation: 1861–1865, 1979. Standard political-economic-social history Specialized studies Andreano; Ralph ed. The Economic Impact of the American Civil War 1962, essays by economic historians Ball, Douglas B. Financial Failure and Confederate Defeat, 1991. Bensel, Richard Franklin. Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859–1877 (1990) ch 3 Black, Robert C., III. The Railroads of the Confederacy, 1988. Bonner, Michael Brem. Confederate Political Economy: Creating and Managing a Southern Corporatist Nation (LSU Press, 2016) online review Burdekin, Richard C. K. and Farrokh Langdana. "War Finance in the Southern Confederacy, 1861–1865," Explorations in Economic History 30 (July 1993), with tables Burdekin, Richard C. K. and Marc D. Weidenmier, "Suppressing Asset Price Inflation: the Confederate Experience, 1861–1865" Economic Inquiry 2003 41(3): 420–432. Davis, William C. and Robertson, James I., Jr., eds. Virginia at War, 1861. U. Press of Kentucky, 2005. 241 pp. Dew, Charles B. Ironmaker to the Confederacy: Joseph R. Anderson and the Tredegar Iron Works Yale University Press 1966 Diamond, William. "Imports of the Confederate Government from Europe and Mexico," Journal of Southern History (1940) 6#4, pp. 470–503 in JSTOR Gates, Paul W. Agriculture and the Civil War (1965) Massey, Mary. Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutes on the Southern Homefront (1952) Morgan, Chad. Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. U. Press of Florida, 2005. 164 pp. Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union, vol