{"id":2710,"date":"2021-03-18T20:48:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T20:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/?post_type=chapter&p=2710"},"modified":"2021-08-30T18:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T18:14:20","slug":"putting-it-together-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory1\/chapter\/putting-it-together-the-civil-war\/","title":{"raw":"Putting It Together: The Civil War","rendered":"Putting It Together: The Civil War"},"content":{"raw":"Beginning in 1861 and continuing until 1865, the United States engaged in a brutal Civil War. For the North, what began as a struggle to preserve the Union, became a war to end slavery in the United States. The South fought for the right to secede and form their own nation\u2014the Confederate States of America\u2014dedicated to the preservation and expansion of slavery. Over 2 million soldiers would fight for the Union, while 1 million men represented the Confederacy on battlefields ranging across the country. Approximately 750,000 of these soldiers would lose their lives. Only after four years of fighting did the North prevail. The Union had been preserved, but only at a great cost. Hundreds of thousands of lives had been lost, many more were left crippled or maimed. Following the war, the nation took on the work of reunification, a task that would be nearly as combative and embittered as the war itself.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Table 1. Statistics from the War<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Number or Ratio<\/th>\r\nDescription<\/th>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
750,000<\/td>\r\nTotal number of deaths from the Civil War<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
504<\/td>\r\nDeaths per day during the Civil War<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2.5<\/td>\r\nApproximate percentage of the American population that died during the Civil War<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
7,000,000<\/td>\r\nNumber of Americans lost if 2.5% of the American population died in a war today<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2,100,000<\/td>\r\nNumber of Northerners mobilized to fight for the Union army<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
880,000<\/td>\r\nNumber of Southerners mobilized to fight for the Confederacy<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
40+<\/td>\r\nEstimated percentage of Civil War dead who were never identified<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
66%<\/td>\r\nEstimated percentage of dead African American Union soldiers who were never identified<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2 out of 3<\/td>\r\nNumber of Civil War deaths that occurred from disease rather than battle<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
68,162<\/td>\r\nNumber of inquiries answered by the Missing Soldiers Office from 1865-1868<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
4,000,000<\/td>\r\nNumber of enslaved persons in the United States in 1860<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
180,000<\/td>\r\nNumber of African American soldiers that served in the Civil War<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1 in 5<\/td>\r\nAverage death rate for all Civil War soldiers<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
3:1<\/td>\r\nRatio of Confederate deaths to Union deaths<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
9:1<\/td>\r\nRatio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on the battlefield, largely due to discriminatory medical care<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
100,000+<\/td>\r\nNumber of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
303,356<\/td>\r\nNumber of Union soldiers who were reinterred in 74 congressionally mandated national cemeteries by 1871<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
0<\/td>\r\nNumber of Confederate soldiers buried in those national cemeteries[footnote]\u201cStatistics from the Civil War.\u201d Facing History and Ourselves. Accessed August 25, 2021. https:\/\/www.facinghistory.org\/resource-library\/statistics-civil-war.[\/footnote]<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>","rendered":"

Beginning in 1861 and continuing until 1865, the United States engaged in a brutal Civil War. For the North, what began as a struggle to preserve the Union, became a war to end slavery in the United States. The South fought for the right to secede and form their own nation\u2014the Confederate States of America\u2014dedicated to the preservation and expansion of slavery. Over 2 million soldiers would fight for the Union, while 1 million men represented the Confederacy on battlefields ranging across the country. Approximately 750,000 of these soldiers would lose their lives. Only after four years of fighting did the North prevail. The Union had been preserved, but only at a great cost. Hundreds of thousands of lives had been lost, many more were left crippled or maimed. Following the war, the nation took on the work of reunification, a task that would be nearly as combative and embittered as the war itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Table 1. Statistics from the War<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Number or Ratio<\/th>\nDescription<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
750,000<\/td>\nTotal number of deaths from the Civil War<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
504<\/td>\nDeaths per day during the Civil War<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.5<\/td>\nApproximate percentage of the American population that died during the Civil War<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7,000,000<\/td>\nNumber of Americans lost if 2.5% of the American population died in a war today<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2,100,000<\/td>\nNumber of Northerners mobilized to fight for the Union army<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
880,000<\/td>\nNumber of Southerners mobilized to fight for the Confederacy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
40+<\/td>\nEstimated percentage of Civil War dead who were never identified<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
66%<\/td>\nEstimated percentage of dead African American Union soldiers who were never identified<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2 out of 3<\/td>\nNumber of Civil War deaths that occurred from disease rather than battle<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
68,162<\/td>\nNumber of inquiries answered by the Missing Soldiers Office from 1865-1868<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4,000,000<\/td>\nNumber of enslaved persons in the United States in 1860<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
180,000<\/td>\nNumber of African American soldiers that served in the Civil War<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 in 5<\/td>\nAverage death rate for all Civil War soldiers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:1<\/td>\nRatio of Confederate deaths to Union deaths<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:1<\/td>\nRatio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on the battlefield, largely due to discriminatory medical care<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
100,000+<\/td>\nNumber of Civil War Union corpses found in the South through a federal reinterment program from 1866-1869<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
303,356<\/td>\nNumber of Union soldiers who were reinterred in 74 congressionally mandated national cemeteries by 1871<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
0<\/td>\nNumber of Confederate soldiers buried in those national cemeteries[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\t\t\t
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