Disease
Disease. Remember this was before vaccinations against disease were created. More soldiers died from disease that died from bullets. Besides unsanitary living conditions, add bad food and bad water.
13,000 Union Soldiers died of disease and malnutrition at the Confederate prison in Andersonville, Georgia
quite a few. they died because the were hit by bullets and shrapnel from mortors and artillery explosions...............
12,913 of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners died there because of starvation, malnutrition, diarrhea, disease, alleged abuse and blunt weapon executions from guards.
Most of them sadly died, or if they had survived the barbed wire and bullets, after the war some wrote poetry or went completely insane.
About 350,000 Union soldiers died. About 250,000 Confederate soldiers died. The reason why more Union soldiers died is because the Union army had almost double the size of the Confederacy!
Not even close. 58,000 US Soldiers alone died in Vietnam. 4,805 Coalition Soldiers died in Iraq.
More than 50% of the soldiers who died in the Civil War died of disease or complications from their wounds.
At Valley Forge soldiers grew weak from not having enough food or warm clothing. Roughly a quarter of them died from malnutrition, exposure to the cold, or diseases such as smallpox and typhoid fever.
more than 600 soldiers died
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12,913 of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners died there because of starvation, malnutrition, diarrhea, disease, alleged abuse and blunt weapon executions from guards.[5]