The resulting baby boom party years are still going on.
My grandfather, a WWII Marine said that things were so crazy you had to wake up and introduce yourself to whoever was beside you in bed. He had to black out the tattoo of a woman’s name who he didn’t even remember. He said the prostitutes were mad as hell because of all the ‘amateurs’ GIVING IT AWAY.
But recently I started doing some genealogy work on my family... and I realized that the real upheaval appears to have occurred after the civil war, it's just that the full magnitude of the damage wasn't felt until generations later. So many people were killed, many families lost their fathers and the survivors lost everything and were basically forced to move west to escape the carnage and to find opportunities and freedom from the oppressive federal government. But what they found instead was aggressive Indians tired of being pushed west, harsh terrain, and disease which resulted in massive infant mortality and even more broken families.