Money Talk - Tokens From the Civil War

On the 12th of April 1861, the first shots were fired in South Carolina on a Union stronghold known as Fort Sumpter.
These opening salvos were the beginning of the bloodiest war that was ever fought by the United States.
By the time it ended, on April 9, 1865, an estimated 620,000 combatants were killed, which is estimated to be approximately two percent of the total population of the United States at the time.
Although we commonly refer to it today as the Civil War, at the time it was more often referred to as the War Between the States.
In spite of the historical result that we know today, that the North succeeded in quelling the “rebellion,” the result of the war was anything but certain at its onset.
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