James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart, 1833-1863 (Confederate general)
ST—Stacks [Central Library]
HGT—History, Geography, & Travel Room [Central Library]
Davis, Burke. Jeb Stuart: The Last Cavalier. New York: Rinehart, 1957. ST—B STUART
Garnett, Theodore S, and Robert J. Trout. Riding with Stuart: Reminiscences of an Aide-De-Camp. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Pub. Co, 1994. ST--973.7455
Hatch, Thom. Clashes of Cavalry: The Civil War Careers of George Armstrong Custer and Jeb Stuart. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. ST--973.82092
McClellan, H B. I Rode with Jeb Stuart: The Life and Campaigns of Major General J.E.B. Stuart. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958. ST--973.73
Rhea, Gordon C. The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, May 7-12, 1864. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. HGT--973.736
Thomas, Emory M. Bold Dragoon: The Life of J.E.B. Stuart. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. ST—B STUART
Thomason, John W. Jeb Stuart. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1930. ST—B STUART
Trout, Robert J. They Followed the Plume: The Story of J.E.B. Stuart and His Staff. Mechanicsburg, Pa: Stackpole Books, 1993. ST--973.7455
Wert, Jeffry D. Cavalryman of the Lost Cause: A Biography of J.E.B. Stuart. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. ST—B STUART
Wittenberg, Eric J, and J D. Petruzzi. Plenty of Blame to Go Around: Jeb Stuart's Controversial Ride to Gettysburg. New York: Savas Beatie, 2006. HGT--973.7349
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
READING LISTS-- CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 12
Thomas Jonathan (“Stonewall”) Jackson was born in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1824. His father and older sister died of typhoid fever when Jackson was just two years old. His mother raised Jackson and two siblings by herself until she was able to remarry in 1830. His new stepfather did not like his stepchildren, however, and they were sent to live with an uncle when Jackson’s mother died in 1831. Jackson’s older brother, Warren, died of tuberculosis in 1841.
Jackson was mostly self-educated when he managed to secure admission to West Point in 1842. He began his schooling there in last place academically, but through sheer determination and hard work managed to graduate 17th in a class of 52. He participated in the Mexican-American War as an artillery officer, and received two brevet promotions for bravery, as well as a Regular Army promotion to 1st Lieutenant.
He left the army to teach at Virginia Military Institute in 1851. Jackson was not popular with his students, because he memorized his lectures and delivered them verbatim in class. If a student asked a question, he simply backed up and repeated that part of the lecture. He also taught Sunday School for black persons at the local Presbyterian Church, and was apparently very popular with those students. He owned six slaves, but was widely known as a “fair and humane” master.
Jackson supervised a contingent of VMI artillerists during the 1859 hanging of John Brown. When war broke out, Virginia Governor John Letcher appointed him a Colonel. Jackson organized the military unit that would later be named after him: the Stonewall Brigade. He was known as a rigid disciplinarian, but was nonetheless popular with most of his men because he was personally fearless, and because his methods seemed to work.
He earned his nickname at First Bull Run, where another general rallied his own troops by saying, “There stands Jackson like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!” His direction of his troops on the battlefield had made him a legend by the time he was wounded in an accidental shooting by his own men on the Chancellorsville battlefield (2 May 1863). His left arm had to be amputated, and he died of complications from pneumonia on 10 May 1863. His wife, Mary Anna, moved to North Carolina but never remarried. She was known as the Widow of the Confederacy, and died in 1915.
Alexander, Bevin. Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson. New York: Holt, 1992. HG-973.73092
Cozzens, Peter. Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. ST,BU-973.732
Davis, Don. Stonewall Jackson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. HU-B JACKSON
Gallagher, Gary W. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. ST-973.73013
Hamlin, Augustus C. The Battle of Chancellorsville: The Attack of Stonewall Jackson and His Army Upon the Right Flank of the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville, Virginia, on Saturday Afternoon, May 2, 1863. Bangor, Me: The author, 1896. ST-973.733
Johnson, Clint. In the Footsteps of Stonewall Jackson. Winston-Salem, N.C: John F. Blair, 2002. CB-917.540444
Krick, Robert K. Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. ST-973.732
Krick, Robert K. The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. ST-973.7455
Redwood, Allen C. Stonewall: Memories from the Ranks. Livermore, Maine: Signal Tree Publications, 1998. ST-B JACKSON
Robertson, James I. Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend. New York: Macmillan Pub. USA, 1997. ST-B JACKSON
Jackson was mostly self-educated when he managed to secure admission to West Point in 1842. He began his schooling there in last place academically, but through sheer determination and hard work managed to graduate 17th in a class of 52. He participated in the Mexican-American War as an artillery officer, and received two brevet promotions for bravery, as well as a Regular Army promotion to 1st Lieutenant.
He left the army to teach at Virginia Military Institute in 1851. Jackson was not popular with his students, because he memorized his lectures and delivered them verbatim in class. If a student asked a question, he simply backed up and repeated that part of the lecture. He also taught Sunday School for black persons at the local Presbyterian Church, and was apparently very popular with those students. He owned six slaves, but was widely known as a “fair and humane” master.
Jackson supervised a contingent of VMI artillerists during the 1859 hanging of John Brown. When war broke out, Virginia Governor John Letcher appointed him a Colonel. Jackson organized the military unit that would later be named after him: the Stonewall Brigade. He was known as a rigid disciplinarian, but was nonetheless popular with most of his men because he was personally fearless, and because his methods seemed to work.
He earned his nickname at First Bull Run, where another general rallied his own troops by saying, “There stands Jackson like a stone wall. Rally behind the Virginians!” His direction of his troops on the battlefield had made him a legend by the time he was wounded in an accidental shooting by his own men on the Chancellorsville battlefield (2 May 1863). His left arm had to be amputated, and he died of complications from pneumonia on 10 May 1863. His wife, Mary Anna, moved to North Carolina but never remarried. She was known as the Widow of the Confederacy, and died in 1915.
Alexander, Bevin. Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson. New York: Holt, 1992. HG-973.73092
Cozzens, Peter. Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. ST,BU-973.732
Davis, Don. Stonewall Jackson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. HU-B JACKSON
Gallagher, Gary W. Lee and His Generals in War and Memory. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1998. ST-973.73013
Hamlin, Augustus C. The Battle of Chancellorsville: The Attack of Stonewall Jackson and His Army Upon the Right Flank of the Army of the Potomac at Chancellorsville, Virginia, on Saturday Afternoon, May 2, 1863. Bangor, Me: The author, 1896. ST-973.733
Johnson, Clint. In the Footsteps of Stonewall Jackson. Winston-Salem, N.C: John F. Blair, 2002. CB-917.540444
Krick, Robert K. Conquering the Valley: Stonewall Jackson at Port Republic. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. ST-973.732
Krick, Robert K. The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virginia. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. ST-973.7455
Redwood, Allen C. Stonewall: Memories from the Ranks. Livermore, Maine: Signal Tree Publications, 1998. ST-B JACKSON
Robertson, James I. Stonewall Jackson: The Man, the Soldier, the Legend. New York: Macmillan Pub. USA, 1997. ST-B JACKSON
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
READING LISTS-- CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 4
Joseph E. Johnston (1807-1891) was a Confederate general who commanded Confederate forces in Georgia in 1864 and in North Carolina in 1865.
Boritt, G S. Jefferson Davis's Generals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. BU, DA, ST-973.73
Bradley, Mark L. Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville. Campbell, CA: Savas Woodbury Publishers, 1996. ST-973.738
Davis, Stephen. Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2001. ST-973.7371
Govan, Gilbert E, and James W. Livingood. A Different Valor, the Story of General Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1956. ST-B JOHNSTON
Hughes, Nathaniel C. Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. ST-973.78
Johnston, Joseph E. Narrative of Military Operations, Directed, During the Late War Between the States. New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1874. ST-973.782
Lash, Jeffrey N. Destroyer of the Iron Horse: General Joseph E. Johnston and Confederate Rail Transport, 1861-1865. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991. ST-973.73013
McMurry, Richard M. Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. ST-973.7371
Symonds, Craig L. Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography. New York: Norton, 1992. HU-B JOHNSTON
Woodworth, Steven E. Civil War Generals in Defeat. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. ST-973.73
Woodworth, Steven E. Leadership and Command in the American Civil War. Campbell, CA: Savas Woodbury, 1995. ST-973.73
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Boritt, G S. Jefferson Davis's Generals. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. BU, DA, ST-973.73
Bradley, Mark L. Last Stand in the Carolinas: The Battle of Bentonville. Campbell, CA: Savas Woodbury Publishers, 1996. ST-973.738
Davis, Stephen. Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2001. ST-973.7371
Govan, Gilbert E, and James W. Livingood. A Different Valor, the Story of General Joseph E. Johnston, C.S.A. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1956. ST-B JOHNSTON
Hughes, Nathaniel C. Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. ST-973.78
Johnston, Joseph E. Narrative of Military Operations, Directed, During the Late War Between the States. New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1874. ST-973.782
Lash, Jeffrey N. Destroyer of the Iron Horse: General Joseph E. Johnston and Confederate Rail Transport, 1861-1865. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991. ST-973.73013
McMurry, Richard M. Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. ST-973.7371
Symonds, Craig L. Joseph E. Johnston: A Civil War Biography. New York: Norton, 1992. HU-B JOHNSTON
Woodworth, Steven E. Civil War Generals in Defeat. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. ST-973.73
Woodworth, Steven E. Leadership and Command in the American Civil War. Campbell, CA: Savas Woodbury, 1995. ST-973.73
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Friday, March 11, 2011
READING LISTS-- CIVIL WAR GENERALS, PT. 2
John Bell Hood (1831-1879)—Confederate general who commanded the Army of Tennessee during the fall of Atlanta and the Tennessee campaign.
Bailey, Ronald H. Battles for Atlanta: Sherman Moves East. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1985. [BU, CP, ST-973.737]
Boritt, Gabor S. Jefferson Davis's Generals. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. [BU, DA, ST-973.73]
Davis, Stephen. Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2001. [ST-973.7371]
Dyer, John P. The Gallant Hood. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1950. [ST-B HOOD]
Groom, Winston. Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville-the Last Great Campaign of the Civil War. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. [BU, MA, ST-973.736]
McDonough, James L, and James P. Jones. "War So Terrible": Sherman and Atlanta. New York: Norton, 1987. [ST-973.737]
McMurry, Richard M. John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1982. [ST-B HOOD]
O'Connor, Richard. Hood, Cavalier General. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1949. [ST-B HOOD]
Snow, William P. Lee and His Generals. New York: Richardson & Co., 1867. [ST-973.7]
Sword, Wiley. Embrace an Angry Wind: The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville. New York, N.Y: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. [MA-973.737]
Note: You can access the St. Louis Public Library Catalog at http://www.slpl.org/.
Bailey, Ronald H. Battles for Atlanta: Sherman Moves East. Alexandria, Va: Time-Life Books, 1985. [BU, CP, ST-973.737]
Boritt, Gabor S. Jefferson Davis's Generals. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1999. [BU, DA, ST-973.73]
Davis, Stephen. Atlanta Will Fall: Sherman, Joe Johnston, and the Yankee Heavy Battalions. Wilmington, Del: Scholarly Resources, 2001. [ST-973.7371]
Dyer, John P. The Gallant Hood. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1950. [ST-B HOOD]
Groom, Winston. Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville-the Last Great Campaign of the Civil War. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. [BU, MA, ST-973.736]
McDonough, James L, and James P. Jones. "War So Terrible": Sherman and Atlanta. New York: Norton, 1987. [ST-973.737]
McMurry, Richard M. John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1982. [ST-B HOOD]
O'Connor, Richard. Hood, Cavalier General. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1949. [ST-B HOOD]
Snow, William P. Lee and His Generals. New York: Richardson & Co., 1867. [ST-973.7]
Sword, Wiley. Embrace an Angry Wind: The Confederacy's Last Hurrah: Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville. New York, N.Y: HarperCollins Publishers, 1992. [MA-973.737]
Note: You can access the St. Louis Public Library Catalog at http://www.slpl.org/.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, PART VII
Copyright © 2006 by St. Louis Public Library. All rights reserved.
X. SOURCES OF STATISTICS
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: the Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Taylor, Lenette S. The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail: The Civil War of Captain Simon Perkins Jr., a Union Quartermaster. Kent: Kent State Press, 2004.
United States. Bureau of the Census. 1860 Federal Census of Population.
Wagner, Margaret E, Gallagher, Gary W., and Paul Finkelman. The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
XI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bacon, Benjamin. Sinews of War: How Technology, Industry, and Transportation Won the Civil War. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1997.
Ball, Douglas B. Financial Failure and Confederate Defeat. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Black, Robert C. The Railroads of the Confederacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952.
Bradlee, Francis B. C. Blockade Running During the Civil War and Effect of Land and Water Transportation on the Confederacy. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1925.
Browning, Robert M. Success Is All That Was Expected: the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War. Washington: Brassey's, 2002.
Carse, Robert. Blockade: the Civil War at Sea. New York: Rinehart, 1958.
Clark, John E. Jr. Railroads in the Civil War: the Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Estaville, Lawrence E. Confederate Neckties: Louisiana Railroads in the Civil War. Ruston, LA: McGinty Publications, 1989.
Fiske, John. The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1900.
Forsyth, Michael J. The Red River Campaign of 1864 and the Loss by the Confederacy of the Civil War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.
Gabel, Christopher R. Rails to Oblivion: the Battle of Confederate Railroads in the Civil War. Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Command & General Staff Press, 2002.
Gates, Paul Wallace. Agriculture and the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 1965.
Goff, Richard D. Confederate Supply. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1969.
Goff, Richard D. Logistics and Supply Problems of the Confederacy. Ann Arbor,MI: University Microfilms, 1972.
Horner, Dave. The Blockade-Runners: True Tales of Running the Yankee Blockade of the Confederate Coast. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968.
Johnson, Ludwell H. Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton in the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1958.
Lonn, Ella. Salt as a Factor in the Confederacy. New York: W. Neale, 1933.
Moore, Jerrold Northrop. Confederate Commissary General: Lucius Bellinger Northrop and the Subsistence Bureau of the Southern Army. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publications, 1996.
Nichols, James Lynn. The Confederate Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi. Austin: University of Texas, 1964.
Pratt, Fletcher. Civil War on Western Waters. New York: Holt, 1956.
Shea, William Land and Terrence J. Winschel. Vicksburg is the Key: the Struggle for the Mississippi River. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Surdam, David G. Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.
Titus, David E. The Failure of the Confederate Vicksburg Campaign. Carlisle Barracks, PA: US Army War College, 1996.
Turner, George Edgar. Victory Rode the Rails: the Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Weber, Thomas. The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865. New York: King's Crown Press, 1952.
Windham, William. Logistics in the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy. University of Alabama Press, 1955.
Wise, Stephen R. Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
Thomas A. Pearson, Reference Librarian
Special Collections Department
St. Louis Public Library
X. SOURCES OF STATISTICS
McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: the Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Taylor, Lenette S. The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail: The Civil War of Captain Simon Perkins Jr., a Union Quartermaster. Kent: Kent State Press, 2004.
United States. Bureau of the Census. 1860 Federal Census of Population.
Wagner, Margaret E, Gallagher, Gary W., and Paul Finkelman. The Library of Congress Civil War Desk Reference. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
XI. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bacon, Benjamin. Sinews of War: How Technology, Industry, and Transportation Won the Civil War. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1997.
Ball, Douglas B. Financial Failure and Confederate Defeat. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Black, Robert C. The Railroads of the Confederacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1952.
Bradlee, Francis B. C. Blockade Running During the Civil War and Effect of Land and Water Transportation on the Confederacy. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1925.
Browning, Robert M. Success Is All That Was Expected: the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron During the Civil War. Washington: Brassey's, 2002.
Carse, Robert. Blockade: the Civil War at Sea. New York: Rinehart, 1958.
Clark, John E. Jr. Railroads in the Civil War: the Impact of Management on Victory and Defeat. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Estaville, Lawrence E. Confederate Neckties: Louisiana Railroads in the Civil War. Ruston, LA: McGinty Publications, 1989.
Fiske, John. The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1900.
Forsyth, Michael J. The Red River Campaign of 1864 and the Loss by the Confederacy of the Civil War. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002.
Gabel, Christopher R. Rails to Oblivion: the Battle of Confederate Railroads in the Civil War. Fort Leavenworth, KS: US Army Command & General Staff Press, 2002.
Gates, Paul Wallace. Agriculture and the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 1965.
Goff, Richard D. Confederate Supply. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1969.
Goff, Richard D. Logistics and Supply Problems of the Confederacy. Ann Arbor,MI: University Microfilms, 1972.
Horner, Dave. The Blockade-Runners: True Tales of Running the Yankee Blockade of the Confederate Coast. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1968.
Johnson, Ludwell H. Red River Campaign: Politics and Cotton in the Civil War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1958.
Lonn, Ella. Salt as a Factor in the Confederacy. New York: W. Neale, 1933.
Moore, Jerrold Northrop. Confederate Commissary General: Lucius Bellinger Northrop and the Subsistence Bureau of the Southern Army. Shippensburg, PA: White Mane Publications, 1996.
Nichols, James Lynn. The Confederate Quartermaster in the Trans-Mississippi. Austin: University of Texas, 1964.
Pratt, Fletcher. Civil War on Western Waters. New York: Holt, 1956.
Shea, William Land and Terrence J. Winschel. Vicksburg is the Key: the Struggle for the Mississippi River. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Surdam, David G. Northern Naval Superiority and the Economics of the American Civil War. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001.
Titus, David E. The Failure of the Confederate Vicksburg Campaign. Carlisle Barracks, PA: US Army War College, 1996.
Turner, George Edgar. Victory Rode the Rails: the Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
Weber, Thomas. The Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865. New York: King's Crown Press, 1952.
Windham, William. Logistics in the Trans-Mississippi Confederacy. University of Alabama Press, 1955.
Wise, Stephen R. Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1988.
Thomas A. Pearson, Reference Librarian
Special Collections Department
St. Louis Public Library
Friday, June 25, 2010
LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, PART VI
Copyright © 2006 by St. Louis Public Library. All rights reserved.
VIII. Size of the Civil War Armies
Union Army------------- Total-------Present-----Absent
January 1, 1862---------575,917-----527,204-----48,713
January 1, 1863---------918,191-----698,802-----219,389
January 1, 1864---------860,737-----611,250-----249,487
January 1, 1865---------959,460-----620,924-----338,536
Confederate Army--------Total------Present------Absent
December 31, 1861------326,768-----258,680-----68,088
December 31, 1862------449,439-----304,015-----145,424
December 31, 1863------464,646-----277,970-----186,676
December 31, 1864------400,787-----196,016-----204,771
March 30, 1865---------358,692-----160,198-----198,494
IX. Wartime and Post-War Costs of the Civil War:
Wartime Cost of the Civil War (estimates)
North: $6,190,000,000
South: $2,099,808,707
Total: $8,289,808,707
Post-War Costs of the Civil War (estimates)
By 1906, $3,000,000,000 had been spent on pensions and other benefits for former Union Army and Navy soldiers and sailors. By the time the last payment to a Civil War veteran was made in 1959, cost of Union Army and Navy pensions exceeded the total cost of the war. The pension figures do not include state benefit payments to former Confederate veterans. The total cost of the war can be said to have amounted to at least $17,000,000,000, a figure that includes wartime expenses, loan and interest costs, and postwar benefit payments to Union and Confederate veterans.
Costs of Compensated Emancipation
If, by contrast, a payment of $500 per slave had been made in 1861 to the holders of the 3,950,511 slaves then living in the United States to buy the freedom of those slaves, the cost would have been $1,975,255,500. A additional payment of $500 to each former slave to give him or her a start in life would have brought the total cost for compensated emancipation to $3,950,511,000- which would have been at least $4,300,000,000 less than the combined wartime expenses (1861-1865) of North and South.
[Sources of statistics and bibliography included in last installment of this article.]
Thomas A. Pearson, Reference Librarian
Special Collections Department
St. Louis Public Library
VIII. Size of the Civil War Armies
Union Army------------- Total-------Present-----Absent
January 1, 1862---------575,917-----527,204-----48,713
January 1, 1863---------918,191-----698,802-----219,389
January 1, 1864---------860,737-----611,250-----249,487
January 1, 1865---------959,460-----620,924-----338,536
Confederate Army--------Total------Present------Absent
December 31, 1861------326,768-----258,680-----68,088
December 31, 1862------449,439-----304,015-----145,424
December 31, 1863------464,646-----277,970-----186,676
December 31, 1864------400,787-----196,016-----204,771
March 30, 1865---------358,692-----160,198-----198,494
IX. Wartime and Post-War Costs of the Civil War:
Wartime Cost of the Civil War (estimates)
North: $6,190,000,000
South: $2,099,808,707
Total: $8,289,808,707
Post-War Costs of the Civil War (estimates)
By 1906, $3,000,000,000 had been spent on pensions and other benefits for former Union Army and Navy soldiers and sailors. By the time the last payment to a Civil War veteran was made in 1959, cost of Union Army and Navy pensions exceeded the total cost of the war. The pension figures do not include state benefit payments to former Confederate veterans. The total cost of the war can be said to have amounted to at least $17,000,000,000, a figure that includes wartime expenses, loan and interest costs, and postwar benefit payments to Union and Confederate veterans.
Costs of Compensated Emancipation
If, by contrast, a payment of $500 per slave had been made in 1861 to the holders of the 3,950,511 slaves then living in the United States to buy the freedom of those slaves, the cost would have been $1,975,255,500. A additional payment of $500 to each former slave to give him or her a start in life would have brought the total cost for compensated emancipation to $3,950,511,000- which would have been at least $4,300,000,000 less than the combined wartime expenses (1861-1865) of North and South.
[Sources of statistics and bibliography included in last installment of this article.]
Thomas A. Pearson, Reference Librarian
Special Collections Department
St. Louis Public Library
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