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The Marine Corps officially ended its role in Iraq on 23 January 2010 when they handed over responsibility for Al Anbar Province to the United States Army. [188] [189] [190] 1,022 Marines were killed in the war [191] [192] with an additional 8,623 wounded, [71] while only Cpl Jason Dunham received the Medal of Honor.
Notable military personnel who were among the more than 215,000 American soldiers, marines, and sailors were killed in action or mortally wounded during the American Civil War. It does not include those who died of disease or accident during the war, or after the war as a result of lingering complications from old battlefield wounds.
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.
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]
Pages in category "Union military personnel killed in the American Civil War" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 242 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. (previous page)
The Marine Corps played a small role in the Civil War (1861–1865); their most prominent task was blockade duty. As more and more states seceded from the Union, about a third of the Corps's officers left the United States to join the Confederacy and form the Confederate States Marine Corps, which ultimately played little part in the war.
The Confederate States Marine Corps (CSMC), also referred to as the Confederate States Marines, was a branch of the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. It was established by an act of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States on March 16, 1861.
K Company, 3d Battalion, 6th Marines; Company D, 2nd Light Armored Infantry Battalion (-) G and H Detachment, Brigade Service Support Group 6; 1st Platoon, Fleet Antiterrorism Security Teams; Marine Corps Security Guard Detachment (U.S. Embassy) Marine Corps Security Force Company Panama; 534th Military Police Company (U.S. Army), Fort Clayton ...