This is especially interesting for families like mine who had as many soldiers in the CSA
as they had on the UNION side.

The War Between the Stats. Yes, that's stats, not states.

Historians and statisticians are questioning the statistics of
Confederate War dead. Official military records compiled in 1866
counted 40,275 North Carolina soldiers who died in uniform.
Reportedly, North Carolina had more men die in uniform than any other
Confederate state, although not as many as New York in the Union. Now
new investigations seem to show the 1866 claims, made when records
were spotty, are highly inaccurate.

While the new counts are not yet complete, it looks like the true
count will be about 31,000 deaths of North Carolina soldiers during
the war. Meanwhile, a separate count iis being made of Virginia
soldiers and it looks like its final tally will also be about 31,000,
far higher than previous reports.

"It's going to be close," says Virginia librarian Edwin Ray, the man
making the count of Virginia deaths in uniform.

The issue tends to be emotional in the affected states which have
pride in their soldiers who died for the losing cause. Whatever the
final count, many people will have difficulty believing it.

New York reported the most deaths of any state: 46,534, according to
the 1866 federal report.

You can read more in an article by Cameron McWhirter in the Wall
Street Journal at http://goo.gl/usb0U  If this link does not work - try this one:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704662604576202823930087328.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

Another interesting fact is that Cameron McWhirter had family fighting for the CSA
and this family member was a 'friend' of my distant cousin General Abe Buford
who rode with General Forrest -CSA..



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