Facts About The Civil War

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At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War

Of every 1,000 Federals in battle, 112 were wounded

Of every 1,000 Confederates, 150 were hit

The 1st Maine Heavy Artillery, in a charge at Petersburg, Virginia, 18 June 1864, sustained a "record" loss of the war-635 of its 900 men within seven minutes.

The bloodiest battles of the War were:
Gettysburg (3 days) ....................... 51,116 casualties
Antietam (1 day) ............................ 22,726 casualties
Seven Days Battle .......................... 36,463 casualties

The Confederate regiments sustaining the greatest losses in one battle were:
26th North Carolina ................ 86 killed 588 wounded (Gettysburg)
6th Alabama ....................... 91 killed 277 wounded (Seven Pines)
4th North Carolina................. 77 killed 286 wounded (Seven Pines)
44th Georgia ..................... 71 killed 264 wounded (Mechanicsville)

There were more Northern-born Confederate generals than Southern-born Union generals.

The general with the longest name was union General Alexander Schimmelfennig

The largest cavalry battle took place at Brandy Station Virginia, June 9, 1863.

There were 100 men in a Company and 10 Companies in a Regiment.

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson often went about camp handing out Sunday school leaflets.

Approximately 3 million men served at some point between 1861 and 1865, about 900,000 for the Confederacy and 2.1 million for the Union. An estimated 300 women disguised themselves as men and fought in the ranks. About 180,000 African American men served in the Union army. By the time of the Confederate surrender in 1865, there were more African Americans in the Union army than there were soldiers in the Confederate army.

More than 3,000 horses were killed at Gettysburg

3,530 Indians who fought for the Union, 1,018 were killed

Within the Civil War soldiers Three hundred were thirteen or under-most of these fifers or drummers, but regularly enrolled, and sometimes fighters. Twenty-five were ten or under