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c. ^ Civil War: All Union casualty figures, and Confederate killed in action, from The Oxford Companion to American Military History except where noted (NPS figures). [ 20 ] estimate of total Confederate dead from James M. McPherson , Battle Cry of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1988), 854.
The American Civil War (April 12, ... the American people had shown they had been successful in ... 8 percent of all white men aged 13–43 died in the war, ...
Died of gangrene three days after being shot in the leg at the Battle of Rome Cross Roads [8] Thomas Drummond: April 2, 1865 ~32 Member of the Iowa Senate (1860–62) Member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1858–60) Republican: Union: Newspaper editor Died of injuries sustained during the Battle of Five Forks [9] Edward F. W. Ellis ...
Casualties of a mass panic during a June 1941 Japanese bombing of Chongqing. [2] More than 5,000 civilians died during the first two days of air raids in 1939. In times of armed conflict, despite numerous advancements in technology, the European Union's European Security Strategy, adopted by the European Council in Brussels in December 2003, stated that since 1990, almost 4 million people have ...
Globally, the civilian casualty ratio often hovers around 50%. It is sometimes stated that 90% of victims of modern wars are civilians, [5] but that is a myth. [2] [4]In 1989, William Eckhardt studied casualties of conflicts from 1700 to 1987 and found that "the civilian percentage share of war-related deaths remained at about 50% from century to century."
Individual civilians killed during the American Civil War, and major actions in which civilians were the deliberate targets. Pages in category "Civilians killed in the American Civil War" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total.
The Lawrence Massacre (also known as Quantrill's Raid) was an attack during the American Civil War (1861–65) by Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas, killing around 150 men and boys.