Daily Quiz for July 27, 2012

$2.5 million. In 1879 the official estimate for the total financial cost of the war to the Union was set at $6,190,000,000, but that does not include veterans’ pensions and care nor all the reparations for damage caused by Federal troops , mostly in border states. The latter were still being settled in the 20th century. The Confederacy is estimated to have spent about $2 million.