The Union Army of 2,100,000 soldiers was nearly twice the size of the Confederate Army of 1,064,000. It was the deadliest war in American history. There were around 210,000 soldiers killed in action and 625,000 total dead. Thirty percent of all Southern white males between the ages of 18 and 40 died in the war. Around 9 million people lived in the Southern states at the time of the Civil War. Around 3.4m were slaves.Sixty six percent of the deaths in the war were due to disease. That is all the facts about the civil war.
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