How do the casualties in the US Civil War compare with that of other American-USA wars?

Answer 1

1. Both were un-declared wars.

2. Both had a military draft.

3. Both had draft riots and draft dodgers.

4. Both divided America.

5. Both fought between a North and South.

6. Both had a president assassinated.

7. Both had a vice president named Johnson.

8. Both had a South lose the war.

9. Both had a SMALL war to re-unit the American people: Spanish-American War of 1898 & Operation Desert Storm in 1991. The former was called the "Splendid Little War" and the latter was referred to by the press as the "100 Hour War.

Note: comparisons include all major factors not factors that may be similar. With that said, the US fought a limited war, a major invasion of North Vietnam, as was done with North Korea was not made.

The regime in South Vietnam was corrupt. The regime in the North, being a government, had corruption. In the North, there was no possibility of voting or marches against the war. As the US was the major player in the war, voting and protest marches happened. The sitting president of the US, Lyndon Johnson was for all practical purposes forced to not run for reelection. Factor No. 9 above has no relevance to the Vietnam War.

Answer 2

The death toll of World War II was astronomical compared to the death toll from the Civil War. In the Civil war, substantially less than one million people died total, while in World War II somewhere from fifty to seventy million people were killed.

Answer 3

Because both sides of the US Civil War were both "Americans" various statistics concerning the war reflect the large number of casualties that later would become "US casualties" when measured against the results of other war the US was involved in. This included statistics form all US wars beginning with the American Revolutionary War and ending with the war in 2003 in Iraq.With that said, the approximate death count for the US Civil War of 668,000 troops is close to the death count of all other US wars combined. This is a horrible number to contemplate. And, it's clear that if anyone knew the Southern rebellion would destroy so many lives, some type of compromise would have been necessary to avoid this. The fact is that although intelligent people such as General in Chief Winfield Scott believed many, many lives would be lost and cause terrible economic damage as well, even his high estimate of perhaps one third of the final death count was surpassed dramatically.

Answer 4

A little over 58,000 servicemembers died during the Vietnam War. More military died during the American Civil War than the total American deaths for WWI, WWII and the Vietnam War...COMBINED!