Battlefield of Gettysburg. Bodies of dead Federal soldiers on the field of the first day's battle
Year Created: 2012
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The Battle of Gettysburg was costly on a scale that is hard to imagine today. A soldier in the
civil war had about a 1 in 4 chance surviving. The first chart below illustrates the amount of military losses in the Civil War compared to other U.S. conflicts. The second chart below compares Civil War battle casualties. There were more battle casualties in the Battle of Gettysburg than in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 combined.
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Military Losses in America's Wars
Civil War Battle Casualties
Citation: “Civil War Casualties.” American Battlefield Trust, 16 Nov. 2012, www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/civil-war-casualties.