Number or Ratio |
Description |
750,000 |
Total
number of deaths from the Civil War |
504 |
Deaths per day during the Civil War |
2.5 |
Approximate percentage of the American
population that died during the Civil War |
7,000,000 |
Number of Americans lost if 2.5% of the
American population died in a war today |
8,064 |
Number of American soldiers who died in the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (as of 3/13/13) |
2,100,000 |
Number of Northerners mobilized to fight for
the Union army |
880,000 |
Number of Southerners mobilized to fight for
the Confederacy |
40+ |
Estimated percentage of Civil War dead who
were never identified |
66 |
Estimated percentage of dead African
American Union soldiers who were never
identified |
2 out
of 3 |
Number of Civil War deaths that occurred
from disease rather than battle |
68,162 |
Number of inquiries answered by the Missing
Soldiers Office from 1865-1868 |
4,000,000 |
Number of enslaved persons in the United
States in 1860 |
180,000 |
Number of African American soldiers that
served in the Civil War |
1 in
5 |
Average death rate for all Civil War
soldiers |
3:1 |
Ratio
of Confederate deaths to Union deaths |
9:1 |
Ratio
of African American Civil War troops who
died of disease to those that died on the
battlefield, largely due to discriminatory
medical care |
100,000+ |
Number of Civil War Union corpses found in
the South through a federal reinterment
program from 1866-1869 |
303,356 |
Number of Union soldiers who were reinterred
in 74 congressionally mandated national
cemeteries by 1871 |
0 |
Number of Confederate soldiers buried in
those national cemeteries |