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"The Economic Cost of the American Civil War: Estimates and implications." Journal of Economic History 35.2 (1975): 299–326. online; Heidler, David S., et al. Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History, (2002). 2740 pages
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; ... but only to fight a defensive war to convince the North the cost of winning was too high.
The main prewar agricultural products of the Confederate States were cotton, tobacco, and sugarcane, with hogs, cattle, grain and vegetable plots. Pre-war agricultural production estimated for the Southern states is as follows (Union states in parentheses for comparison): 1.7 million horses (3.4 million), 800,000 mules (100,000), 2.7 million dairy cows (5 million), 5 million sheep (14 million ...
This is a list of the costliest land battles of the American Civil War, measured by casualties (killed, wounded, captured, and missing) on both sides. [A]
For well over a century the federal government was largely financed by tariffs averaging about 20% on foreign imports. At the end of the American Civil War in 1865 about 63% of Federal income was generated by the excise taxes, which exceeded the 25.4% generated by tariffs. In 1915 during World War I, tariffs generated 30.1% of revenues.
The Civil War had a devastating economic and material impact on the South, where most combat occurred. The enormous cost of the Confederate war effort took a high toll on the region's economic infrastructure. The direct costs in human capital, government expenditures, and physical destruction totaled $3.3 billion.
The cost of war is so great that compromise should not be a dirty word. Editorial. January 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM ... who is trying in his awkward and blustery fashion to project American strength ...
At the beginning of the war, the Confederate dollar cost 90 cents in gold dollars. By the war's end, its price had dropped to 1.7 cents. [2] Overall, prices in the South increased by more than 9000% during the war, averaging about 26% a month. [3]