Tactics had not caught up with technology..The line up and shoot tactics of earlier wars were fought with smoothbore muskets, not extremely accurate weapons..At the time of the Civil War, muskets had rifled barrels which were far more accurate, resulting in higher casualties, because the old tactics were still in vogue.
The Union.
Televison
The North had more casualties but the south had a greater percentage of the total population killed.
pleoce is god
The majority of casualties other than the obvious war casualties came from being in captivity, starvation, and hypothermia.
Civil War
about 650,000 total casualties
Approximately 620,000 casualties.
about 620,000 casualties
The Civil War
The fighting and casualties of the Civil War occurred at the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas, Virginia.
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Death
The Union.
230,052 Union Casualties and 435,000 Confederate Casualties
600,000
about 6:1