Union Sacrifice: 150

The American Civil War: 150th Anniversary of it's End and the Union Victory!

The above map (taken from Wikipedia) shows the Union states (in dark blue), the Union territories (in light blue), Union slave states (in yellow.) The Confederate "states" are in dark brown and the Confederate "territories" are light brown.

 

 

        At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation's loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.

          The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:

Battle deaths:	110,070
Disease, etc.:	250,152
Total	360,222

        The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:

Battle deaths:	94,000
Disease, etc.:	164,000
Total	258,000

        The leading authority on casualties of the war, Thomas L. Livermore, admitting the handicap of poor records in some cases, studied 48 of the war's battles and concluded:
        Of every 1,000 Federals in battle, 112 were wounded.
        Of every 1,000 Confederates, 150 were hit.
        Mortality was greater among Confederate wounded, because of inferior medical service. The great battles, in terms of their toll in dead, wounded, and missing is listed on this site:   

 

In addition to its dead and wounded from battle and disease, the Union listed:

Deaths in Prison	24,866
Drowning	4,944
Accidental deaths	4,144
Murdered	520
Suicides	391
Sunstroke	313
Military executions	267
Killed after capture	104
Executed by enemy	64
Unclassified	14,155

^ I added the map because several people have asked me which places were part of the Union and which were part of the Confederacy. I added the number of wounded and dead because it is important to see how the war affected a generation of people. The South/Confederacy started the war which places all the civilian and military dead on their shoulders (the same way the Germans and Japanese are responsible for all the civilian and military dead of World War 2.) We need to remember the sacrifice of the men, women and children that worked, fought and died to preserve our country and to help make it the world's only Super Power. ^

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

http://civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm