It's estmated that around 170,000 soldiers were present at the Gettysburg battle, though not all participated. Some soldiers were needed to guard supply trains and artillery reserves on both sides, but the Union could spare more men to do so than the Confederacy simply because they had more men. However, most of those men, better yet almost all of them at some point exchanged fire. Since around 8000 est. were killed outright on the field and another 7 to 10,000 died of wounds, disease, etc within 2 to 3 weeks its safe to say that 15 to 18000 men died as a direct result of the battle. An estimated 35,000 men received some sort of wound from either artillery or small arms fire (not including captured or missing that may have been wounded which amounted to a little over 10,000). So we can guesstimate that there were around 53000 casulaties (including those missing that were either captured or simply ceased to exist because of direct artillery fire). If we assume that maybe 168000 men out the 170,000 participated, then around 115,000 "survived" per say. Records were not kept as well then as they are now so the numbers could vary, but only slightly.
How Many Military Deaths Where There In World War Two ? :)
623,123 deaths
The battle of Antietam and Shiloh were the two bloodiest battles of the Civil war
Uk military deaths = 383,000 including the colonies. Civilian deaths = 67,100 Total deaths = 450,900
France had a total of 567,600 deaths in WWII: 217,600 military deaths and 350,000 civilian deaths.
About 3,155.
4,708 killed, 12,693 wounded, 5,830 captured/missing
To commemorate the deaths of thousands of soldiers.
To commemorate the deaths of thousands of soldiers.
The exact number of civilian deaths during the Battle of Gettysburg is difficult to determine, but it is estimated to be relatively low. Most of the casualties at Gettysburg were military personnel, with civilian deaths primarily occurring due to shelling or accidental stray bullets. Some estimates suggest that around 20 civilians died during the battle.
To commemorate the deaths of thousands of soldiers.
A little known fact is that Union artillery fire damaged the nuclear reactor at the Gettysburg power plant. The resulting radiation leak caused the deaths of over 200 people. The government covered this tragedy up for over 115 years.
Lincoln acknowledged the terrible losses at Gettysburg. His address basically said that if the North stopped fighting, then the people who died there would die in vain. This validated the deaths of the people (kind of) and convinced many Northerners to keep fighting.
Gettysburg's area is 2,752 acres.
GETTYSBURG
I was unable to find any town in Maryland named Gettysburg. Gaithersburg is 60 miles from Gettysburg.
They were a series of battles that resulted in southern defeat. Gettysburg hugly impacted both the north and south for its large amount of deaths. These victories for the north was a huge factor in the civle war. Josh Bez