Post by IRONCLAD on Feb 24, 2004 21:44:17 GMT -5
THE COST OF WAR -
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Included in the cost of the War of Southern Independents are the loss of human life and limb; billions of treasure; ruined families, homes, buildings, roads, and bridges; $2.5 billion in slave capital; a retardation of economic development; and a heritage of hate and corruption.
Union records show that 110,000 soldiers and sailors were killed or mortally wounded in 10,455 engagements. Another 250,000 died of disease and other causes, including 26,168 who are known to have died in Confederate prisons. A total of 277,401 personnel were wounded, 184,791 were captured or missing, and 285,245 were discharged for disability.
Confederate records are not complete, but an estimated 95,000 Southerners died as a result of battle and 164,000 from disease and other causes; another 225,000 were wounded.
(Elmira Prison where the Doctor there murdered a lot of the Confederate POW's)
Estimated war expenses on the two sides amounted to $5 billion, plus government and states pensions for the disabled. In January 1863 the U.S. was spending $2.5 million daily on the war effort. An 1879 estimate of the North's war cost was put at $6.2 billion. The Confederate States of America spent $2.1 billion, a figure not including costs paid by states. Millions of dollars were also spent on the war effort by private citizens and aid societies. The public debt of the U.S. on June 1, 1866, was $2.8 billion. The debt of the South was canceled by repubiation or by the 14th. amendment. Goverment outlays for Union veterans' benefits eventually exceeded the war's original cost. The government also spent $3 billion on reconstruction. To Notherners the cost of living rose 117%. To Southerners there seemed no end to inflation. A gold dollar that cost $1.10 in Confederate currency in May 1861 cost $65. in March 1865.
IRONCLAD
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Included in the cost of the War of Southern Independents are the loss of human life and limb; billions of treasure; ruined families, homes, buildings, roads, and bridges; $2.5 billion in slave capital; a retardation of economic development; and a heritage of hate and corruption.
Union records show that 110,000 soldiers and sailors were killed or mortally wounded in 10,455 engagements. Another 250,000 died of disease and other causes, including 26,168 who are known to have died in Confederate prisons. A total of 277,401 personnel were wounded, 184,791 were captured or missing, and 285,245 were discharged for disability.
Confederate records are not complete, but an estimated 95,000 Southerners died as a result of battle and 164,000 from disease and other causes; another 225,000 were wounded.
(Elmira Prison where the Doctor there murdered a lot of the Confederate POW's)
Estimated war expenses on the two sides amounted to $5 billion, plus government and states pensions for the disabled. In January 1863 the U.S. was spending $2.5 million daily on the war effort. An 1879 estimate of the North's war cost was put at $6.2 billion. The Confederate States of America spent $2.1 billion, a figure not including costs paid by states. Millions of dollars were also spent on the war effort by private citizens and aid societies. The public debt of the U.S. on June 1, 1866, was $2.8 billion. The debt of the South was canceled by repubiation or by the 14th. amendment. Goverment outlays for Union veterans' benefits eventually exceeded the war's original cost. The government also spent $3 billion on reconstruction. To Notherners the cost of living rose 117%. To Southerners there seemed no end to inflation. A gold dollar that cost $1.10 in Confederate currency in May 1861 cost $65. in March 1865.
IRONCLAD