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This paper provides a brief insight into the direct repercussions of the American Civil War and discusses how it took a toll on both Confederates and Unionists, with about $6 billion in total war costs and over one million war casualties. It analyzes how economic, military and diplomatic repercussions of the Civil War were all in some way related to abolition. It looks at how in order to be re-accepted into the Union, Southern states were forced to redraft their constitutions and elect new legislators and how this reconstruction of the southern state governments came with a large financial, political and social cost.

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"Reconstruction also affected domestic armies and led to an upsurge in informal Confederate militia groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Needing an outlet for their frustrations, decommissioned Confederate Army soldiers and anti-abolitionists formed and joined such paramilitary organizations. Union army officers enjoyed positions of power in the federal government, while Southern war generals suffered loss of livelihood and pride. Furthermore, for the economy and the new social order in the South to remain stable, the federal government divided the south into five military districts immediately following the end of the war."

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