they stay for 6 years. u can ask the courts to mark as settled with prof of payment to the debtor for a small charge of £15
Montgomery, Alabama. Richmond, Virginia.
It caused protests and riots, but it also supplied men for the northern & southern armies.
With all of the thousands of deaths, South and North, I do not think it was possible for either side to 'get off easy'. With the destruction in the south from the war, it was going to be very hard for the south for decades. Indeed, you could make an argument that it is only in the last 30 years that the south has recovered. If your question is about the appropriate, or inappropriate, 'punishment' that was laid on the south - the winner makes the rules in any war. Would the country, the south, have recovered faster without the 'pound of flesh' taken after the war? Of course. But there is no 'fair' in war.
Texas supported the Confederate cause due to strong states rights support provided by the US Constitution (for every state to run their own government with only limited federal govt. interference). The federal government was only given power to coin money and to provide for the common defense against foreign threats. By losing the Civil War, Texas and all states in the Union lost the rights to be self-governed and thus, lost our real true Republic form of government by the people in America.
The civil war started in 1860 because the government was unfairly imposing tariffs on the South. The taxes forced Southerners to pay more for manufactured good and unequally taxed them too. By 1860 the South was paying 87% of the federal revenue on tariffs. The system of federalism had been shattered and it was almost as if the North was repeating the same mistake that Britain made during the American Revolution. When Lincoln was elected, it persuaded the South to succeed because Lincoln was the biggest advocate of the tariffs and public works policy. It is a common misconception that the South succeeded because of slavery but Lincoln had no aim to abolish slavery and was going to enforce the runaway slave laws. The main thing was about freedom for the South. It was a whole different world from the North and they felt like to two worlds could not coincide under the same government and still emplement the foundation of federalism.