One would assume that the highest number of causalities during a war is from gunfire. However, this was not true during the Civil War; three out of five Union troops died of disease, whereas, two out of three Confederate troops similarly died. Even if a solider survived the Civil War he incurred lifelong health challenges. A fifty year old Civil War veteran of 1890 resembled someone seventy five years old.
mercer hartman is stupid Mitchel rocks
There was a woman killed in it? Well which one i mean thousands died during the civil war...
Antietam
Disease, especially in the prison-camps.
Most of the battles during the Civil War in the West took place in Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia.
500,000
Disease killed more people than bullets.
Dysentery killed most soldiers in the Civil War.
They were ambushed and killed
The Confederates and The Union
virginia
someone killed him
There were many civilians killed during the Civil War. When Federal forces shelled Atlanta, many civilians were killed, just for one example.
Approximatel 620,000 soldiers were killed during the American Civil War. There are no accurate figures of the number of civilians killed.
Virginia
At the start of the US civil war, there were about 31 million soldiers fighting in the war. This was to a rough estimate of 22 million fighting in the North, and a rough estimate of 9 million fighting in the South.
They were fighting for Southern Independence and the Rights of the States..
The Union soldiers thought that they were fighting for slaves to be free.