AFTERMATH OF THE WAR

COST OF WAR

• Deadliest war in American history

• 3,000,000 served• About 10% of the

population

• North and South combined spent more than 5 times the amount spent in the previous 8 DECADES

Casualties

Union Confederacy

Death from wounds

110,070 94,000

Death from disease

249,458 164,000

Total death rate

23 percent 24 percent

Wounded 275,175260,000

(approx.)

Economic Costs• Federal loans and taxes to finance the

war totaled $2.6 billion = $36.5 billion today

• Federal debt on June 30, 1865 rose to $2.7 billion = almost $37 billion today

• Confederate debt ran over $700 million = $9 billion today

• Union inflation reached as high as 182%

• Confederate inflation rose to 9,000%

AFRICAN-AMERICAN TROOPS IN THE WAR

• Able to serve after Emancipation Proclamation

• 54th Massachusetts Regiment• One of first all

African-American regiments

• Most famous for leading disastrous attack on Ft. Wagner, S.C., in 1863

DISTINGUISHED MINORITIES IN CIVIL WAR

William Carney • Member of 54th Mass. –

1st African-American soldier to win congressional medal of honor.

Philip Bazaar• Latin-American who

won Congressional Medal of Honor as member of US Navy assault on Ft. Fisher.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

• The Union Army marched through the South and released slaves• The officers read the

Emancipation Proclamation at each plantation

• Jan. 1865 – Lincoln urged Congress to end slavery

• The 13th Amendment adopted in Dec.1865• Ended slavery in America• By year’s end, 27 states

(8 in the South) ratified it

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT

• December 18, 1865, Secretary of State William H. Seward proclaimed the amendment to have been adopted as of December 6, 1865, when Georgia's ratification brought the total number of ratifying states to 27

• Florida ratified it on December 28, 1865, New Jersey in 1866

• Texas in 1870

• Delaware in 1901, Kentucky in 1976

• Mississippi, whose legislature voted in 1995 to ratify, belatedly notified the Office of the Federal Register in February 2013 of that legislative action, completing the legal process for the state

LINCOLN ASSASSINATED

• Lincoln was shot 5 days after the surrender • While watching a play at

Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.

• Shot by a Confederate supporter, John Wilkes Booth• Booth jumped onto the

stage and escaped• Broke his leg in the process

• As Booth ran across the stage he yelled:

“Sic semper tyrannis!”Latin for

“Thus always to tyrants”

• Sec. of State William Seward was stabbed, he later recovered

• Vice Pres. Andrew Johnson was supposed to be assassinated

• Booth was tracked and killed• The other conspirators

were tried and hanged or imprisoned

ASSASSINATION PLOT

AFTERMATH

• Lincoln died the morning after the attack• The bullet could not be

removed from his brain• First president to be

assassinated

• Vice Pres. Andrew Johnson was sworn in as President of the U.S.• pledged to continue

Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction

Funeral procession for President Lincoln

Victory parade after the surrender

O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done;The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Here captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head; It is some dream that on the deck,You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;

Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.

O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN!- WALT WHITMAN