According to the "Statistical Abstract of the United States", for year
2001, page 10, the following information is provided for UNION forces
ONLY:

        Total Serving   2,213,000
        Battle Deaths     140,000
        Other Deaths      224,000
        Total Deaths      364,000  or about 16% of those serving.

        Other Causalties  282,000

The only data for Southern forces is the footnote of ". . . estimates of
the number serving in the Confederate forces range from 600,000 to
1,500,000."  The listed source of the data is the President's Commission
on Veterans Pensions.  A review, however, of the U.S. Army Chief of
Military Web Site, (http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/inq.htm) provides more
exact numbers (above are slightly rounded down).  But again, only for
Union Forces.

Diana Bennett wrote:
>
> Dear Listers:
>
> Can you help me?
> 1. How many men and women died in the entire Civil War - deaths from war
> and deaths from disease?
> 2. Songs: It is said that the North and South used each other's melodies
> but changed the words. Any examples?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Diana Kercheval Bennett
>
> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions
> at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html

To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions
at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html