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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.
American Civil War: 0.6–1 million [80] [81] 1861–1865 United States vs. Confederate States: North America Mozambican Civil War: 0.5–1 million [82] 1977–1992 People's Republic of Mozambique, later Republic of Mozambique, and allies vs. RENAMO and allies Mozambique First Sudanese Civil War: 0.5–1 million [83] [84] 1955–1972
The war left an estimated 698,000 soldiers dead, along with an undetermined number of civilian casualties, making the Civil War the deadliest military conflict in American history. [g] The technology and brutality of the Civil War foreshadowed the coming world wars.
For example, during the Seven Days Battles in the American Civil War (June 25 to July 1, 1862) there were 5,228 killed, 23,824 wounded and 7,007 missing or taken prisoner for a total of 36,059 casualties. [1] [note 1] The word casualty has been used in a military context since at least 1513. [2]
Category: American Civil War casualties. 1 language. ... People killed in the American Civil War (4 C) P. American Civil War prisoners of war (2 C, 213 P, 1 F)
This is a list of the costliest land battles of the American Civil War, measured by casualties (killed, wounded, captured, and missing) on both sides. [A]
Similar to the understatement for Union casualties, one historian believes Confederate casualties were probably closer to 12,000. [239] Using the commonly quoted statistics, Cleburne's brigade had 790 wounded and 188 killed, both numbers higher than those for any brigade in any of the armies at the battle. [241]
It was the Civil War's bloodiest battle, claiming over 50,000 combined casualties over three days. [15] Union Major General George Meade 's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia , halting Lee's invasion of the North and forcing his retreat.