What was the norths population during the American Civil War?

Answer 1

At the start of the American Civil War, the South's population has been estimated to have stood at approximately 9 million persons total. By contrast, the population of the North at the start of hostilities is estimated to have been over double that -- at approximately 22 million.

Answer 2

At the start of the American Civil War, the population of the North has been estimated to have been approximately 22 or 23 million persons in total. While these numbers are not impressive by contemporary standards, what is important is that the North's population was more than double that of the South (estimated at around 9 million), which gave the North a significant advantage in the conflict.

Answer 3

The population of the United States at the beginning of the US Civil War was around thirty million; twenty-one million in the north, nine million in the south. Of the nine million in the south about three million were slaves, and there were almost another half million free blacks, leaving around five and one-half million white southerners.

Answer 4

The combined population of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee and North Carolina according to the 1870 U. S. Census was 9,487,386.

Answer 5

The population of the South at the beginning of the Civil War was around 9 million people. This was quite small compared to the 22 million people who lived in the North.

Answer 6

Approx. 9,103,332. Hard to be exact due to many unkept record of slave births. Info from U.S. American Hisroey text.

Answer 7

Out of the 9.1 million people living in the South during the civil war, 3.6 million of them were slaves.

Answer 8

a total of 4.1million people