Casualties in the Civil War
This chart displays how many casualties in total there were in the American Civil War. A "casualty" is a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, capture, or through being missing in action. There were an estimated 1.5 million casualties in the American Civil War. Most deaths were non-combat related. The killers were the wide-spread diseases, during the Civil War. For every three people dead in combat, about five died of diseases.
Confederate Deaths
The top bar graph displays the Confederate deaths by state, according to General James Fry (1866). General James Fry gathered this information by looking at the Confederate's muster rolls. A muster roll is an official list of men and officers in the military unit. Some of the information for states has been updated, such as Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, South Carolina and Arkansas.
Union Deaths
This bar graph displays the total number of combat deaths and disease deaths. There are more disease deaths than combat deaths. One thing very obvious is that the Union had more state supporters than the Confederate side. According to nps.gov, there is a total of 642, 427 Union casualties. That's 159,401 soldier casualties more than the Confederate side.