Casualty+Statistics

toc = = =** Casualties **= The word casualty generally refers to a soldier who is killed, wounded, captured, lost or otherwise made inactive or unable to fight. In the American Civil War, the United States of America is believed to have suffered 640,000 casualties and the Confederate States of America 450,000. The majority of all casualties on both sides were deaths by disease.

= **Union Deaths (by cause)** =

Approximately 2,200,000 men served the Union during the Civil War. Although there are many conflicting records on the number of Union soldiers that died, the number is believed to be around 360,000 for combined battle deaths and deaths by disease. Because Civil War Medicine was not as advanced as modern medicine is, a large number of soldiers died after the Civil War because of wounds they received in battle.

= Major Battles =


 * The 10 Largest Battles of the Civil War (by casualties) **

In the ten Civil War battles with the highest casualties (shown above), an estimated total of 287,876 people were killed, injured or lost. Of the ten battles, the United States of America won four, the Confederate States of America won four and two were inconclusive (Battle of the Wilderness and Antietam, although the Battle of Antietam was considered a Union victory by some). One of the battles took place in Pennsylvania, one in Georgia, four in Virginia, three in Tennessee and one in Maryland.

=** Confederate Deaths (by state) **=

As very few records were kept of Confederate deaths, this chart serves only as a general comparison between the states. The actual number of Confederates who died in the Civil War is believed to be 260,000, far more than the sum of the sates in the chart above (56,115).

= Civil War Overview = The Civil War had the most American casualties of any war in history, because both sides were American. Other reasons for the high casualty rates were the style of fighting, the types of weaponry, the sizes of the armies amassed, the skill of the generals and the fact that the two opposing sides shared a long border. The Battle of Shiloh had more casualties than all American wars up that point combined, the Battle of Antietam was and still is the single bloodiest day in American history and the Battle of Gettysburg was and still is the largest battle in North American history.

= Bibliography =

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