The Union Casualty Number is known shurley due to found documents is: Battle deaths:110,070Disease, etc.:250,152Total360,222
The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:Battle deaths:94,000Disease, etc.:164,000Total258,000
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Roughly about 500,000
According to Wikipedia, during the American Civil War, 1861-1865, 3,164,000 people served their countries, 2,100,000 from the Union and 1,064,000 from the Confederacy.
The Union lost 360,000 total war dead, of that number 110,000 were killed in action, and the Confederacy lost 260,000 total war dead, of that number 93,000 were killed in action. It seems hard to believe that so many died outside of combat, but for every one soldier killed because of combat, usually two or more died of disease.
Killed in Action (Union and Confederate): 203,000
Total Dead (Union and Confederate): 620,000
Another some 412,200+ were wounded, of that number 275,200 were Union, and 137,000+ were Confederate.
All said, some 635,200 Union soldiers were killed or wounded, and 397,000 Confederates were killed or wounded.
All together, 1,032,200 people were killed or wounded during the Civil War!
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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: 94,00
Disease, etc.: 164,000
Total 258,000
Source: Civilwarhome.com
The Civil War was one of the deadliest on record. There were about 620,000 soldiers who died while the war was being fought.
During the four years of the US Civil War, two million men served in the Union's military forces. For the Confederacy, 900,000 soldiers served in the Southern military forces.
the men were hurt or killed the ones left were hungry so that's what happens
Disease killed more people than bullets.
The total number killed was almost 500,000 men for the North and South.
disease
About 45,000.