Government figures gave the exact amount of the nation's public debt at $2,783,425,879.21. The United States Treasury held exactly $132,887,549.11 cash in hand. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"Finances of the United States," The American Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1866 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873), 291.