number of casualties in the american civil war
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- 1 An exact count of soldiers who died in combat and from disease during the Civil War is impossible, historians say. 2  Prof Hacker estimates between 650,000 - 850,000 deaths, but believes the most likely number was about 750,000.
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How many soldiers died in the US Civil War? Approximately 258,000 Confederate soldiers died in the American Civil War. Of that number, 94,000 were the result of battle wounds. The rest died from disease and other causes … .
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Gettysburg Casualties (Battle Deaths at Gettysburg) Nearly one-third of the total forces engaged at Gettysburg became casualties. George Gordon Meade’s Army of the Potomac lost 28 percent of the men involved; Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia suffered over 37 percent.Of these casualties, 7,058 were fatalities (3,155 Union, 3,903 Confederate).early one-third of the total forces engaged at Gettysburg became casualties. George Gordon Meade’s Army of the Potomac lost 28 percent of the men involved; Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia suffered over 37 percent.
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- Aftermath at Gettysburg and the American Civil War. The Battle of Gettysburg changed the lives of not only the soldiers, but also Gettysburg’s residents. The Battle of Gettysburg resulted in 51,000 casualties (killed, wounded, captured and missing).
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Civil War Deadlier Than Previously Thought? “Even if the number of war dead was ‘only’ 620,000, that still created a huge impact, especially in the South, and a figure of 750,000 makes that impact—and the demographic shadow it threw on the next two generations of Americans—just that much greater.”. 1  Tags. 2  American Civil War.
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- Most of the common diseases that killed troops on both sides of the American Civil War include dysentery, malaria, pneumonia, measles, typhoid and tuberculosis. The worst out … of the bunch was by far dysentery. This one disease accounted for around 45,000 deaths in the Union army and around 50,000 deaths in the Confederate army. The diseases that killed the soldiers were malaria and small pox.
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civilian deaths civil war elliswa Guest. In trying to estimate civilian deaths in the Civil War there has been, surprisingly, little careful work. McPherson’s 'Battle Cry of Freedom (1988) estimates about 50,000 civilian dead. I think that this is certainly too low.
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New Estimate Raises Civil War Death Toll In 1900, Livermore set out to make a more complete count. In his book, “ Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in America, 1861-65 ,” he reasoned that if the Confederates had lost proportionally the same number of soldiers to disease as the Union had, the actual number of Confederate dead should rise to 258,000.
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- The distinguished Civil War historian James McPherson has estimated that there were 50,000 civilian deaths during the war, and has concluded that the overall mortality rate for the South exceeded that of any country in World War I and all but the region between the Rhine and the Volga in World War II.
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Civil War Deadlier Than Previously Thought? “The traditional estimate has become iconic,” historian J. David Hacker said. “It’s been quoted for the last hundred years or more. If you go with that total for a minute—620,000—the number of men dying in the Civil War is more than in all other American wars from the American Revolution through the Korean War combined. And consider that the American population in 1860 was about 31 million people, about one-tenth the size it is today.
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The Civil War The total number of casualties in the Civil War is not known precisely as records were not accurately kept during the era. Most sources put the total casualties on the Union and Confederate sides at between 640,000 and 700,000.
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Gettysburg Casualties (Battle Deaths at Gettysburg) Gettysburg Casualties (Battle Deaths at Gettysburg) Nearly one-third of the total forces engaged at Gettysburg became casualties. George Gordon Meade’s Army of the Potomac lost 28 percent of the men involved; Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia suffered over 37 percent. Of these casualties, 7,058 were fatalities (3,155 Union, 3,903 Confederate). Another 33,264 had been wounded (14,529 Union, 18,735 Confederate) and 10,790 were missing (5,365 Union, 5,425 Confederate). At field hospitals around Gettysburg, amputated limbs lay in heaps and were buried together.
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Casualties of Battle Dead Union Soldier at Siege of Petersburg in 1865. Casualties include three categories: 1) dead (aka fatalities, killed-in-action and mortally wounded); 2) wounded; and 3) missing or captured. In general terms, casualties of Civil War battles included 20% dead and 80% wounded. Of the soldiers who were wounded, about one out of seven died from his wounds. Over 2/3 of the estimated 620,000 men who gave their lives in the Civil War died from disease, not from battle.
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The Civil War By the Numbers 180,000 — Number of African American soldiers that served in the Civil War. 1 in 5 — Average death rate for all Civil War soldiers. 3:1 — Ratio of Confederate deaths to Union deaths. 9:1 — Ratio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on the battlefield, largely due to discriminatory medical care
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American War Dead, By the Numbers The bloodiest conflict in our history, by a long way, was the last fought in our own territory. Figures for Civil War dead have always been approximate; for many years 618,000 was the accepted estimate of total deaths, but one recent study places the figure at 750,000. I've used the smaller number here.
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Battle Of Gettysburg Casualties at Gettysburg totaled 23,049 for the Union (3,155 dead, 14,529 wounded, 5,365 missing). Confederate casualties were 28,063 (3,903 dead, 18,735 injured, and 5,425 missing), more than a third of Lee’s army.
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Worst American This or That The total given by the VA for the Indian Wars (1,000) seems to be a wild guess. Just two major defeats -- Custer's and St. Clair's -- add up to about 900 dead all by themselves. The official number of Americans killed in the Revolutionary War (4,435) is only about 2/3 the numbers usually given by historians. The total of US combat deaths during the Civil War is given as 140,414 -- or some 30,000 higher than most historians would estimate. I suspect (but don't know for sure) that the boost may come from the DoD counting deaths among POWs as combat rather than disease.
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- Civil War Killed, Wounded, and Missing. The deadly tally of the American Civil War (1861-1865) was an estimated 620,000 in total killed, which was 2% of the total U.S. population. To compare the percentage of deaths with the present-day U.S. population, it is equal to 6,000,000 killed.
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- At least 7863 people died, with an additional 11199 soldiers having gone missing, possibly being captured. In all, about 46,286 casualties were reported. The battle of Get … tysburg had the record for the most casualties in the civil war.
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Slavery comes to North America , 1619 Some 186,000 black soldiers would join the Union Army by the time the war ended in 1865, and 38,000 lost their lives. The total number of dead at war’s end was 620,000 (out of a population of some 35 million), making it the costliest conflict in American history.
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-   Answer   About 360,00 Union soldiers and around 260,000 Confederate solders died in the American Civil War. A hole 5 percent of the states population was lost. … Many were wounded. Back then the medican was so premature all they could do to save the wounded was to amputate. All they could amputate were limbs.
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10 Bloodiest Civil War Battles History & Culture. The Civil War lasted from 1861-1865 and resulted in the deaths of more than 620,000 union and confederate soldiers. Each of the battles on this list resulted in more than 19,000 casualties including those who were either killed or wounded by the fighting.
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Civil War Casualties The Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict. The unprecedented violence of battles such as Shiloh, Antietam, Stones River, and Gettysburg shocked citizens and international observers alike. Nearly as many men died in captivity during the Civil War as were killed in the whole of the Vietnam War.Hundreds of thousands died of disease. Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty.early as many men died in captivity during the Civil War as were killed in the whole of the Vietnam War. Hundreds of thousands died of disease. Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty.
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- The Union Army fought and eventually defeated the Confederate States Army during the war. About 360,000 Union soldiers died from all causes and some 280,000 were wounded.
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Civil War Casualties Caveats notwithstanding, Hacker bravely aimed at revising the total count, concluding the actual death toll for the Civil War amounted to between 650,000 and 850,000—and by prudently splitting the difference, proposed a new number: 750,000, as reported in America’s Civil War in March 2012.
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Worst American This or That Among them: 1  The US government ignores the Philippine War. 2  The total given by the VA for the Indian Wars (1,000) seems to be a wild guess. 3  The official number of Americans killed in the Revolutionary War (4,435) is only about 2/3 the numbers usually given by historians. The total of US combat deaths during the Civil War is given as 140,414 -- or some 30,000 higher than most historians would estimate.