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Section 18: Worcester County Subject: Woke Worcester Msg# 1127336
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| What I found fascinating is that the number of deaths from disease outweighed combat deaths by a significant margin. I knew disease was rampant, but I had no idea how many soldiers died from it. Staggering statistic. | ||||||
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Thanks for that correction. Yup I saw that too. By mis-chance I had used "casualties" which included wounded and dead from the north. By the time I noticed it was too late to do an edit. I figured somebody would come up with some corrections. Among the multiple sources revisited today, I've invariably seen the northern losses outnumber the southern losses. Many sources show deaths by north were 360,000 and by South were 260,000, and 620,000 total. And there's been several studies asserting that those statistics were very understated. Quote from Wiki: The exact number of dead will never be known with any certainty. . . . For over a hundred years the total number of dead has been accepted by most historians as 618,222, generally rounded off to 620,000.[4] Newer estimates have put the number at about 750,000 or about 20% higher than previously approximated.[5] Quote from Britannica: It is estimated that from 752,000 to 851,000 soldiers died during the American Civil War. Yet there's much agreement that the US Civil War was one of the bloodiest. And was won as a victory for the freedom for all races in America. |
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