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Civil War
HISTORY
Civil War Casualties
The Cost of War: Killed, Wounded, Captured, and Missing
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. Taken
as a percentage of today's population, the toll would
have risen as high as 6 million souls.
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