Aftermath: Despotism, America Transformed, Conscription, Costs of War, Enemies of the Republic, Historical Accuracy, Lincoln's Revolutionary Legacy, Myth of Saving the Union, Northern Culture Laid Bare, Pathways to Central Planning, Sovereignty 
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“[The] fact remains that that the Civil War was a political and constitutional watershed in United States history. Although the Civil War draft was primarily an inducement to volunteering [with ample financial incentives], the arbitrary arrests [of civilians] and first use of [a clearly unconstitutional] national conscription established important precedents. Economically, power shifted toward the industrialized North. Moreover, at war’s end the very concept of State sovereignty established by the Founders had little meaning.
As Professor William B. Hesseltine said many years later, it was a “war against the States, both North and South. Within half a century after Appomattox, the federal government began to regulate certain businesses and introduced a graduated income tax. These innovations would have been inconceivable prior to 1860.” Larry Gara, Wilmington College.
(Review of “The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front,” J. Matthew Gallman (Dee Publishing, 1994. Published in Civil War History – A Journal of the Middle Period, Vol. 42, No. 3. September 1996).