To Paul, Richard, and All,
I doubt that civilian deaths, particularly those of freedpeople would be included in these
figures. If my guess is correct, the calculations were based on
bureaucratic records of who was officially "employed" in the
service. Much of black service to the Union, outside the USCT,
was unofficial. (Dare I say that this would have been true in the
Confederate armies as well!?)
Harold S. Forsythe
History & Black Studies
Fairfield University
Date sent: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:16:16 -0500
From: Paul Finkelman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Civil War casualties
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> 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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