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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Thirty-seven thousand blacks, the great majority from the South, perished in the Union Army, as did tens of thousands more in contraband camps, on Confederate Army labor gangs, and in disease-ridden urban shantytowns. Nearly 260,000 men died for the Confederacy—over one-fifth of the South’s adult white male population. The region, moreover, was all but bankrupt, for the collapse of Confederate bonds and currency wiped out the savings of countless individuals and the resources and endowments of colleges, churches, and other institutions.”
— A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition] by Eric Foner
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