Government figures put the exact amount of the nation's public debt on June 30, 1866 at $2,783,425,879.21. The October 31, 1866 figures showed that this figure had bee reduced by almost a hundred million dollars to $2,681,751,081.82. The United States Treasury held exactly $130,326,960.62 cash in hand on this date. (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.