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Civil
War Medicine
Death
to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies? Second Edition
DEATHS
FROM BATTLE AND DISEASE IN AMERICAN WARS
By
Alfred Jay Bollet, M.D.
From:
Civil War Medicine: Challenges and Triumphs
©Galen Press, Ltd., Tucson, AZ, 2002

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Battle
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Non-Battle
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Related
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Related
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Total
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Revolutionary
War (1775–83)
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no
reliable estimates
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~10,000
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Mexican
War (1846)
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1,549
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10,986
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12,535
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Spanish-American
War (1898)
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968
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5,438
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6,406
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World
War I (1917–18)
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50,585
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71,857
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122,442
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World
War II (1941–45)
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292,100
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8,460
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300,560
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Korean
War (1950–55)
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33,629
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20,617
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54,246
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Vietnam
(1965–75)
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46,226
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10,326
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56,552
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Total of above wars
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562,741
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Civil
War:
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Union
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110,070
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230,458
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359,528
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Confederate (estimated)
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200,000
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Total
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559,528
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