AfterwordFrom the list of The Cotton Run’s characters, only Edwin Stanton and Lafayette Baker actually existed. The others are fictional, including the ships and their names.
The Civil WarThree million men fought, six hundred thousand died. Two-thirds of those died from disease and not from bullets. The four years of fighting cost the Confederacy $2 billion, the Union $3 billion. Indirect expenses including property damages, pensions, and such pushed the final combined total to a staggering $15 billion debt. It took years for Washington to sort it all out.
In the midst of a financial boom in the late 1860s, the Northern states could handle the expenses. The Southern economy collapsed.
GettysburgGettysburg was the turning point of the war, as well as the bloodiest battle in the history o
