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    Magnitude of the Civil War

    At the time of the giving of the vision the Northern people generally had but little, if any, conception of the pending war. Even President Lincoln, three months after (April 12, 1861), when several States had joined South Carolina in her secession ordinance, and the first gun was fired on Fort Sumter, called for only 75,000 men, and these for the short term of three months.GSAM 339.2

    The total number of troops enrolled on the Union side during the war was 2,859,132. The Encyclopedia Britannica says that “the Confederate army numbered, at the beginning of 1863, about 700,000 men,” but that it is difficult to ascertain just how many they had enrolled in all. It estimates their death roll at “about 300,000 men.” Some of the late encyclopedias place the loss on the Union side (of those killed in battle, or who died of wounds or diseases contracted in the field or in prisons) at 359,528. Of the debt on the Union side the Britannica says:—GSAM 339.3

    “The debt reached its maximum Aug. 31, 1865, amounting to $2,845,907,626.56. Some $800,000,000 of revenue had also been spent, mainly on the war; States, cities, counties and towns had spent their own taxation and accumulated their own debts for war purposes; the payments for pensions will probably amount to $1,500,000,000 in the end. The expense of the Confederacy can never be known, the property destroyed by the Federal armies and by Confederate armies can hardly be estimated; and the money value ($2,000,000,000) of the slaves in the South was wiped out by the war. Altogether, while the cost of the war cannot be exactly calculated, $8,000,000,000 is a moderate estimate.” 4Encyclopedia Britannica (ninth edition), Vol. XXIII, page 780.GSAM 339.4

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