Civil War Trust: Civil
War Casualties
Retrieved September 14, 2015 the Civil War Trust website
THE COST OF WAR: KILLED, WOUNDED, CAPTURED, AND MISSING
The Civil War was America's bloodiest conflict. The unprecedented violence of battles such as
Shiloh, Antietam, Stones River, and Gettysburg shocked citizens and
international observers alike. Nearly as
many men died in captivity during the Civil War as were killed in the whole of
the Vietnam War. Hundreds of thousands
died of disease. Roughly 2% of the
population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of
duty. Taken as a percentage of today's
population, the toll would have risen as high as 6 million souls.
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Consequences
Gettysburg dead
The Battle of Gettysburg left approximately 7,000 corpses in
the fields around the town. Family members had to come to the battlefield to
find their loved ones in the carnage. (Library of Congress)
Approximately one in four soldiers that went to war never
returned home. At the outset of the war,
neither army had mechanisms in place to handle the amount of death that the
nation was about to experience. There
were no national cemeteries, no burial details, and no messengers of loss. The largest human catastrophe in American
history, the Civil War forced the young nation to confront death and
destruction in a way that has not been equaled before or since.
Recruitment was highly localized throughout the war. Regiments of approximately one thousand men,
the building block of the armies, would often be raised from the population of
a few adjacent counties. Soldiers went
to war with their neighbors and their kin.
The nature of recruitment meant that a battlefield disaster could wreak
havoc on the home community.
The 26th North Carolina, hailing from seven counties in the
western part of the state, suffered 714 casualties out of 800 men during the
Battle of Gettysburg. The 24th Michigan
squared off against the 26th North Carolina at Gettysburg and lost 362 out of
496 men. Nearly the entire student body
of Ole Miss--135 out 139--enlisted in Company A of the 11th Mississippi. Company A, also known as the "University
Greys" suffered 100% casualties in Pickett's Charge. Eighteen members of the Christian family of
Christianburg, Virginia were killed during the war. It is estimated that one in three Southern
households lost at least one family member.
One in thirteen surviving Civil War soldiers returned home
missing one or more limbs. Pre-war jobs
on farms or in factories became impossible or nearly so. This led to a rise in awareness of veterans'
needs as well as increased responsibility and social power for women. For many, however, there was no
solution. Tens of thousands of families
slipped into destitution.
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