At a Glance
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- Democracy & Civic Engagement
- Racism
Below are statistics about the Civil War. 1
750,000
Total number of deaths from the Civil War 2
504
Deaths per day during the Civil War
2.5
Approximate percentage of the American population that died during the Civil War
7,000,000Â Â Â Â Â Â
Number of Americans lost if 2.5% of the American population died in a war today
8,064 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Number of American soldiers who died in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (as of 3/13/13) 2
2,100,000Â Â Â Â Â Â
Number of Northerners mobilized to fight for the Union army
880,000 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Number of Southerners mobilized to fight for the Confederacy
40+Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Estimated percentage of Civil War dead who were never identified
66Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Estimated percentage of dead African American Union soldiers who were never identified
2 out of 3Â Â Â Â Â Â
Number of Civil War deaths that occurred from disease rather than battle
68,162Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Number of inquiries answered by the Missing Soldiers Office from 1865-1868
4,000,000Â Â Â Â Â Â
Number of enslaved persons in the United States in 1860
180,000 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Number of African American soldiers that served in the Civil War
1 in 5 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Average death rate for all Civil War soldiers
3:1Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Ratio of Confederate deaths to Union deaths
9:1Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Ratio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on the battlefield, largely due to discriminatory medical care
100,000+Â Â Â Â Â Â
Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869
303,356Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Number of Union soldiers who were reinterred in 74 congressionally mandated national cemeteries by 1871
0Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
Number of Confederate soldiers buried in those national cemeteries 3
- 1Except where noted, figures adapted from "The Civil War by the Numbers," American Experience: Death and the Civil War companion website (accessed April 25, 2013).
- 2 a b Guy Gugliotta, “New Estimate Raises Civil War Death Toll,” New York Times, April 3, 2012.
- 3Salvo cuando se señale, las cifras se han adaptado del sitio adjunto “The Civil War by the Numbers”, American Experience: Death and the Civil War sitio adjunto, (consultado el 25 de abril de 2013).
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Facing History & Ourselves, "Statistics From the Civil War," last updated July 11, 2022.
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