Casualties: The Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history. Approximately 620,000 people died. At the time this was 2% of the population. Today, if 2% of the population was killed in battle, nearly six million people would die. The Civil War casualties outnumbered all of the other American conflicts combined until the war of Vietnam in casualties. Some people believe that the Civil War casualties amounted all the way up to 850,000. The Civil War Trust Fund does not support this belief and says that the number of casualties was around 620,000. More people in the North enlisted than in the South. Approximately 1,500,000 people enlilsted in the Union and 590,000 people were killed, wounded, captured, or missing. Approximately 590,000 people enrolled in the Confederacy and 490,000 people were killed, wounded, captured, or missing. During the Civil War one in four people never returned home from the war. The U.S was not prepared for the amount of death that the Civil War caused. America did not have national cemeteries for the soldiers lost in battle. This was probably due to the fact that the nation was divided into two sides.
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