Site hosted by Build your free website today!  Reflections on
the Causes of the Civil War: Just a Few Views   Even then, they
may fluctuate and question, and if they come back to the same
conclusion or truth, their belief is strengthened."  -Carlene M.
Wojahn  At Times One Must Stop and Feel the Past  Written by
Carlene M. Wojahn  The Civil War took more American lives than
any other war in history. In fact, 620,000 soldiers died !! This
was is almost as many as the combined American dead from the
Revolutionary War (1775-1783) through the Viet Nam War !! The
Union lost about 360,000 troops, and the Confederacy about
260,000. More than half of these deaths were caused by disease.
Another statistic is that one third of all Southern soldiers
died in the war, compared to one-sixth of the Northern soldiers.
And those that did not die were injured if not physically,
emotionally.  But it wasn't only the soldier that felt this pain
and loss, families felt it just as much, no one was immune to
this pain. This War had