The figure I have seen often, though I cannot cite the source from memory, is
632,000 dead during the Civil War.  These must have been war
deaths, due to combat and illness, rather than total deaths in the
US during the period 1861-1865.
  I do remember looking at a statistical compilation called
Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, but I was in high
school.  I do not think that it compiled much data from Confederate
records, but was quite impressive in calculating Union losses
based on official reports.

Harold S. Forsythe
History & Black Studies
Fairfield University

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> I found the most reliable Rev War death & casualty statistics--with
> comparisons to specific figures for the Civil War and other American
> wars-- in Howard H. Peckham, The Toll of Independence: Engagements and
> Battle Casualties of the American Revolution (Chicago, 1974), 131-133, and
> John W. Shy, “The Legacy of the American Revolutionary War,” in his A
> People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for
> American Independence (Ann Arbor, 1990), 250-257. I didn't make notes on
> the Civil War because I'm writing about an earlier period, but I expect
> these essays by Peckham and Shy will either provide the information you
> want or lead you to a source that does.
>
> Jon Kukla
>
> John Kneebone wrote:
>
> >
> > From: Diana Bennett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:27 AM
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> > Subject: Civil War questions
> >
> > 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
> >
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