Union Army: 5,824
Confederate Army: 6,667
Because, all of the casualties were American, on both sides.
Total dead, from both sides, were about 620,000 from all causes including accident and disease.
Battle casualties, from both sides (all American), approximately 800,000.
Because he conducted a war of attrition, knowing that there would be huge casualties on both sides.
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The similarities between north and the civil war are...... Both sides were American. Both sides spoke English. Both sides raised regional units. Both sides had the same weapons. Both sides had poor medical care. Both sides wanted to expand
It proved that this would not be a short, bloodless war. The relatively low casualties shocked both sides.
The battle cost more brutal than people expected
Stones River (Murfreesboro) - Dec. '62-Jan '63.
Over about 116,000,000 peopledied in the union.
Gettysburg was the deadliest overall. The Battle of Chickamauga (just South of Chattanooga) was the deadliest 2 days of the Civil War. Arguably, if the battle at Chickamauga had lasted into the 3rd day, it would have surpassed the casualties at Gettysburg.
The fact that I remember best about the casualties (Not dead) at Shiloh is that the ~23,000 on both sides were more than those in all the wars the US had fought to that date. It was a real shock to those people on both sides who thought it would be a short war...