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The Secretary of the Treasury in 1866 reported that the Civil War, to that time, had cost the Federal Government $6.19 billion dollars. The National Debt in 1865 stood at $2.85 billion dollars.

It cost the Federal Government nearly $2 million per day from 1861 through 1865 to wage the war.

By 1910 the cost of the war, including pensions and burial of veterans, had reached $11.5 billion dollars.

The value of the Confederate dollar in gold dropped from 90 cents in 1861 to 6 cents in 1864. Most Confederate dollar bills are worth more today than they were in 1865.