STATISTICS

After the end of the Civil War, scholars began to compile facts and figures as a way to help grasp the scope and cost of the bloody four year struggle. Exact numbers have been impossible to ascertain in many instances, but over the years historians have come to agree on general estimates:

More than 2,000,000 soldiers and sailors fought for the North during the Civil War, while fewer than 750,000 men fought for the South.

Union deaths during the war totaled more than 360,000 men, fewer than a third of which were combat related. Most of the dead succumbed to diseases, of which diarrhea was the most deadly, accounting for more than 44,500 deaths.

Figures for the almost 200,000 Northern black soldiers are even more startling. More than 29,000 died of disease, while only 2,751 succumbed to combat related causes.

Confederate deaths have been calculated as somewhat fewer than 260,000 men, with 164,000 estimated to have been caused by disease.

Of the South's 425 generals, 82 percent survived the war; 92 percent of the North's 583 generals survived.

More than 30,000 Union soldiers died while incarcerated in Confederate prisons.

More than 26,000 Southerners died in Union prisons.

Only 4,084 of the 132,554 Union sailors died during the war. Only 1,084 died in combat, with the rest killed by disease or accident. The combat deaths include 342 scalded to death when their ships' boilers were struck by enemy fire and 308 sailors who drowned. Five thousand soldiers in the Union armies drowned during the war.

There were more than 10,000 battles, engagements, skirmishes, and other military events. In descending order, the number in each state were recorded as follows:

Virginia 2,154	Kentucky 453
Tennessee 1,462	Alabama 336
Missouri 1,162	N.Carolina 313
Arkansas 771	S.Carolina 239
W.Virginia 632	Maryland 203
Louisiana 566	Florida 168
Georgia 549

All other states and territories saw much less action than Florida, and many states had no military conflict.

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