WAR OF SECESSION 



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WAR OF SECESSION 



Lee, the President was shot by John Wilkes 

 Booth, an actor, in Ford's Theater, Washing- 

 ton. He died early the next morning without 

 recovering consciousness. His death was as 

 truly mourned in the South as in the North; 

 there was a feeling that the people of the late 

 Confederacy had lost a sincere friend. 



Lincoln had, indeed, mapped out his plans 

 for reconstruction, and they were lenient, as 

 might have been expected. Had he lived, the 

 troublesome reconstruction period might have 

 been passed through with much less unfairness 

 and ill-feeling. Johnson, contrary to expecta- 

 tions, attempted to carry out Lincoln's policies, 

 but the opposition of Congress and his own 

 lack of tactfulness prevented a successful out- 

 come. 



Cost of the War. The South suffered from 

 the conflict infinitely more than did the North, 

 although the two sections were as one in the 

 loss of men who would never return to their 

 firesides. The North enlisted a total of 2,667,- 



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000 men who saw service in the field, in addi- 

 tion to nearly 50,000 who were recruited and 

 held in reserve. The Confederates enlisted 

 about 1,400,000 men during the four years. 

 The Federals had at most 1,000,000 men in the 

 field at one time; the Confederates, about half 

 as many. There were 360,000 casualties in the 

 Union forces; 110,000 men were killed in action 

 or died of wounds, and 250,000 died of disease 

 or from privation. The Confederate losses 

 were 95,000 in killed and fatally wounded; 

 from disease and privation, about 165,000. 

 These records are as exact as compilations 

 make them possible. Nine-tenths of the men 

 in the South served the Confederacy; four- 

 ninths of the Northern men were in the Union 

 army. 



Industry was nearly killed in the South, and 

 its commerce was destroyed, owing to the 



Federal blockade. In the North business \\as 

 not decreased, but in many lines was heavily 

 increased, and commerce did not suffer se- 

 verely. There was slight invasion of the North, 

 while, on the contrary, the South bore the 

 stress of battle and suffered from invasions and 

 raids which are inseparable from the prosecu- 

 tion of war. 



In money the North spent during the four 

 years more than $3,500,000,000, and in the years 

 since 1865 has distributed in pensions to dis- 

 abled Union soldiers a sum nearly as large. 

 The cost of the war to the Confederates was 

 about $2,000,000,000. L.B.E. 



Consult Grant's Memoirs; Formby's The Ameri- 

 can Civil War; Jefferson Davis's Rise and Fall 

 of the Confederate Government; and The Battles 

 and Leaders of the Civil War, by numerous par- 

 ticipants in the struggle. 



Related Subjects. These volumes contain nu- 

 merous articles on events connected with the War 

 of Secession. The following list indicates not 

 only the principal battles and the soldiers and 

 statesmen most closely Involved, but many of the 

 happenings leading up to actual war : 



Abolitionists 

 Alabama, The 

 Andersonville 

 Antiotam, Battle of 

 Atlanta, subhead 



History 



Bull Run, Battles of 

 Carpetbaggers 

 Chancellorsville, 



Battle of 



Chattanooga, Battle of 

 Confederate States of 



America 



Dred Scott Decision 

 Emancipation 



Proclamation 

 Fort Henry and Fort 



Donelson 

 Fredericksburg, 



Battle of 



Fugitive Slave Laws 

 Gettysburg, Battle of 

 Kansas-Nebraska Bill 

 Kenesaw Mountain, 



Battle of 



BIOGRAPHIES 



Mason and Dixon's Line 

 Missouri Compromise 

 Monitor and Merrimac 

 Murf reesboro, Battle of 

 Nullification 

 Petersburg, Siege of 

 Reconstruction 

 Shiloh, Battle of 

 Slavery 

 Spottsylvania Court 



House, Battle of 

 States' Rights 

 Tariff 



Trent Affair 

 Underground Railroad 

 United States, subtitle 



Summary of United 



States History 

 Vicksburg, Battle of 

 Wilderness, Battle of 



the 

 Wilmot Proviso 



Bragg, Braxton 

 Burnside, Ambrose E. 

 Butler, Benjamin F. 

 Davis, Jefferson 

 Early, Jubal A. 

 Farragut, David G. 

 Foote, Andrew H. 

 Grant, Ulysses S. 

 Hood, John Bell 

 Hooker, Joseph 

 Jackson, Thomas J. 

 Johnston, Albert S. 

 .Tolimton, Joseph E. 

 Lee, Robert E. 



Lincoln, Abraham 

 Longstreet, James 

 McClellan, George B. 

 McDowell, Irvin 

 Mason and Slidell 

 Meade, George G. 

 Pemberton, John C. 

 Polk, Leonidas 

 Rosecrans, William S. 

 Sheridan, Philip 

 Sherman, William T. 

 Stephens, Alexander H. 

 Thomas, George H. 



