Col Robert Gould Shaw: What are you doing?
Col James M. Montgomery: Liberating this town in the name of the republic.
--Glory
Typical death toll estimates for the Civil War range from 500,000 to 600,000. However, there is reason to believe that male military-related death actually exceeded 800,000. If civilian casualties resulting from war crime and other acts of aggression are factored in, then the total Civil War death toll approaches one million.
In 1860 the population of the United States was estimated to be 31.4 million.
More Americans died as a result of the Civil War than in all other US wars combined. The socio-economic effects of this degree of mortality on the people of the time, and on subsequent generations, will likely never be fully understood.
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