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Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty during the Civil War. Taken as a percentage of today's population, the toll would have risen as high as 6 million souls.
A specific figure of 618,222 is often cited, with 360,222 Union deaths and 258,000 Confederate deaths. This estimate was not an unreasoned guess, but a number that was established after years...
7 million — Number of Americans lost if 2.5% of the population died in war today. 2.1 million — Number of Northerners mobilized to fight for the Union army. 880,000 — Number of Southerners ...
Professor Jim Downs states that tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of slaves died during the war from disease, starvation, or exposure, and that if these deaths are counted in the war's total, the death toll would exceed 1 million.
Two percent of the population—more than 620,000—died in it. In two days at Shiloh on the banks of the Tennessee River, more Americans fell than in all previous American wars combined.
How many people died during the Civil War? It is estimated that from 752,000 to 851,000 soldiers died during the American Civil War. This figure represents approximately 2 percent of the American population in 1860.
Of the 462,634 Confederate soldiers captured 247,769 were paroled on the field and 25,976 died in prison. The mortality rate for prisoners of war was 15.5 percent for Union soldiers and 12 percent for Confederate soldiers.