<P> The financing of war expenditures by the means of currency issues ( printing money ) was by far the major avenue resorted to by the Confederate government . Between 1862 and 1865 , more than 60 % of total revenue was created in this way . While the North doubled its money supply during the war , the money supply in the South increased twenty times over . </P>
where did the biggest source of war funding come from during the civil war
printing money