Statistics From the War 1
| Number or Ratio | Description |
|---|---|
| 750,000 | Total number of deaths from the Civil War2 |
| 504 | Deaths per day during the Civil War |
| 2.5 | Approximate percentage of the American population that died during the Civil War |
| 7,000,000 | Number of Americans lost if 2.5% of the American population died in a war today |
| 7,014 | Number of American soldiers who died in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (as of 11/13/19)3 |
| 2,100,000 | Number of Northerners mobilized to fight for the Union army |
| 880,000 | Number of Southerners mobilized to fight for the Confederacy |
| 40+ | Estimated percentage of Civil War dead who were never identified |
| 66 | Estimated percentage of dead African American Union soldiers who were never identified |
| 2 out of 3 | Number of Civil War deaths that occurred from disease rather than battle |
| 68,162 | Number of inquiries answered by the Missing Soldiers Office from 1865-1868 |
| 4,000,000 | Number of enslaved persons in the United States in 1860 |
| 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 |
| 100,000+ | Number of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869 |
| 303,356 | Number of Union soldiers who were reinterred in 74 congressionally mandated national cemeteries by 1871 |
| 0 | Number of Confederate soldiers buried in those national cemeteries |
Citations
- 1 : Except 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 : Guy Gugliotta, "New Estimate Raises Civil War Death Toll," New York Times, April 3, 2012, New York Times.
- 3 : Iraq and Afghanistan statistics from CNN.
