Originally Posted by Danny42C
Totting-up Wiki figures, it apperars that the total of Army deaths in the Civil War (estimated as 750K) exceeds the total in all US wars since (633k - my tot from Wiki figures), which shows what an yet unheald wound it has inflicted on the American spiritual psyche..
There's a display board at one of the many Battlefield Visitor Centers [I'm fairly sure it's at Manassas] which vividly displays those awful statistics.
Of course, most of the battles were found along Napoleonic lines, with large formations advancing across open ground in the face of artillery and rifle fire from [often entrenched] defenders. It's little wonder the troops were mown down in large numbers. A lot like the Somme
et al, really, but without the machine guns.