does this include civilians working for the military, especially the many
former slaves who worked for the United States Army?


NULL wrote:

> >   The figure I have seen often, though I cannot cite the
> > source from memory, is 632,000 dead during the Civil War.
>
>    The numbers usually provided by professionals in the
> field of Civil War history are 360,000 Union dead (from
> battle and disease) and 258,000 Confederate dead (from
> battle and disease).  The total of 618,000 is also often
> rounded off to 620,000.  These are estimates, of course,
> because some records (especially Confederate) did not
> survive the war, but they are probably as close to
> the "true" numbers as we will ever have.
>
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