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American Civil War deaths
Category: Miscellaneous Asked by: morleyevans-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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10 Dec 2004 04:12 PST
Expires: 09 Jan 2005 04:12 PST Question ID: 440786 |
How many civilians were killed in the Civil War? How many soldiers were killed? |
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Re: American Civil War deaths
From: markj-ga on 10 Dec 2004 07:17 PST |
I believe that the first half of your question is unasnwerable, despite the large amount of Civil War lore and statistics that is available online. Possibly the main reasons why this is the case are that the vast majority of the fighting occurred in the Confederacy, that record-keeping was much less careful and complete there than it was in the Union states, and that there appears to be little hard data (at least online) about civilian casualties in any case. As one academic put it in a lecture summary: "There is no reliable estimate of the number of Southern civilian casualties, nor the cost in property damage. By the end of the war, much of the South lay in ruins, economically bankrupt and socially turned upside down by the emancipation of four million black slaves." Western Virginia Community College: The Civil War & Reconstruction Lecture Summary 3: The War, Part 2 (1863-1865) http://www.vw.cc.va.us/vwhansd/HIS269/Lecture3.html |
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Re: American Civil War deaths
From: rossgmann-ga on 11 Dec 2004 03:56 PST |
The following book may help you, if you can find a copy "Title: The Civil War Almanac" Author Name: Bowman, John S. (Executive Editor) Publisher: World Almanac Publications, New York, 1983 Hope this will help you Kind regards Ross (Australia) |
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Re: American Civil War deaths
From: morleyevans-ga on 11 Dec 2004 05:05 PST |
Thank you to markj-ga and rossgmann-ga for your helpful Comments on this question. Calculating such a number as the civilian casualties in the Civil War does seem to be problematical. It makes one wonder from where come all the numbers that the news industry instantly finds every day for such things. |
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