The War's Toll
The war remains the deadliest conflict in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers. Based on 1860 census figures, 8% of all white males aged 13 to 43 died in the war, including 6% in the North and 18% in the South.
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- Maris Vinovskis, Toward a social history of the American Civil War: exploratory essays (Cambridge University Press, 1990).