In all, over a million American troops were killed and wounded in the American Civil War.

In four years of war, at least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. Wounded Total: 412,200 (275,200 wounded for the North and 137,000+ wounded for the South) In all, over a million American troops killed and wounded.

Population Estimate For Both North And South In 1861 (Start of Civil War): 29,805,000 Americans

President Abe Lincoln must have had a hard time explaining these casualties. In order to understand the Civil War totals, I've added current American figures for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

In four years of war, the grand total of U.S. killed, wounded, injured, and ill for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars reached nearly 67,000 at the end of July 2007, according to casualty reports published by the Department of Defense on August 4, 2007.

According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the resident population of the United States, projected to 08/10/07 at 03:45 GMT (EST+5) is 302,565,059. (Approximately, ten times more than the 1861 census total.)

The Ten Costliest Battles of the Civil War
Based on total casualties (killed, wounded, missing, and captured)

http://www.civilwarhome.com/Battles.htm

#1
Battle of Gettysburg
Date: July 1-3, 1863   (Three Days Of Battle)

Location: Pennsylvania
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: George G. Meade
Confederate Forces Engaged: 75,000
Union Forces Engaged: 82,289
Winner: Union
Casualties: 51,112 (23,049 Union and 28,063 Confederate)

#2
Battle of Chickamauga
Date: September 19-20, 1863 (Two Days Of Battle)

Location: Georgia
Confederate Commander: Braxton Bragg
Union Commander: William Rosecrans
Confederate Forces Engaged: 66,326
Union Forces Engaged: 58,222
Winner: Confederacy
Casualties: 34,624 (16,170 Union and 18,454 Confederate)

#3
Battle of Chancellorsville
Date: May 1-4, 1863     (Four Days Of Battle)

Location: Virginia
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: Joseph Hooker
Confederate Forces Engaged: 60,892
Union Forces Engaged: 133,868
Winner: Confederacy
Casualties: 30,099 (17,278 Union and 12,821 Confederate)

#4
Battle of Spotsylvania
Date: May 8-19, 1864   (Twelve Days Of Battle)

Location: Virginia
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate Forces Engaged: 50,000
Union Forces Engaged: 83,000
Winner: Confederacy
Casualties: 27,399 (18,399 Union and 9)000 Confederate)

#5
Battle of Antietam
Date: September 17, 1862    (ONE Day Of Battle)

Location: Maryland
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: George B. McClellan
Confederate Forces Engaged: 51,844
Union Forces Engaged: 75,316
Winner: Inconclusive (Strategic Union Victory)
Casualties: 26,134 (12,410 Union and 13,724 Confederate)

#6
Battle of The Wilderness
Date: May 5-7, 1864      (Three Days Of Battle)

Location: Virginia
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate Forces Engaged: 61,025
Union Forces Engaged: 101,895
Winner: Inconclusive
Casualties: 25,416 (17,666 Union and 7,750 Confederate)

#7
Battle of Second Manassas
Date: August 29-30, 1862     (Two Days Of Battle)

Location: Virginia
Confederate Commander: Robert E. Lee
Union Commander: John Pope
Confederate Forces Engaged: 48,527
Union Forces Engaged: 75,696
Winner: Confederacy
Casualties: 25,251 (16,054 Union and 9,197 Confederate)

#8
Battle of Stone's River
Date: December 31, 1862     (ONE Day Of Battle)

Location: Tennessee
Confederate Commander: Braxton Bragg
Union Commander: William S. Rosecrans
Confederate Forces Engaged: 37,739
Union Forces Engaged: 41,400
Winner: Union
Casualties: 24,645 (12,906 Union and 11,739 Confederate)

#9
Battle of Shiloh
Date: April 6-7, 1862     (Two Days Of Battle)

Location: Tennessee
Confederate Commander: Albert Sidney Johnston/ P. G. T. Beauregard
Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate Forces Engaged: 40,335
Union Forces Engaged: 62,682
Winner: Union
Casualties: 23,741 (13,047 Union and 10,694 Confederate)

#10
Battle of Fort Donelson
Date: February 13-16, 1862     (Four Days Of Battle)

Location: Tennessee
Confederate Commander: John B. Floyd/Simon B. Buckner
Union Commander: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate Forces Engaged: 21,000
Union Forces Engaged: 27,000
Winner: Union
Casualties: 19,455 (2,832 Union and 16,623 Confederate)

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The Price in Blood!
Casualties in the Civil War
http://www.civilwarhome.com/casualties.htm
(Population Estimate For Both North And South In 1861:   29,805,000 Americans)
        At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some experts say the toll reached 700,000. The number that is most often quoted is 620,000. At any rate, these casualties exceed the nation's loss in all its other wars, from the Revolution through Vietnam.
        The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their losses, by the best estimates:

Battle deaths: 110,070

Disease, etc.: 250,152

Total 360,222

        The Confederate strength, known less accurately because of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000. Its estimated losses:

Battle deaths: 94,000

Disease, etc.: 164,000

Total 258,000

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According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the resident population of the United States, projected to 08/10/07 at 03:45 GMT (EST+5) is 302,565,059. (Approximately, ten times more than the 1861 census total.)

Link to VCS story: http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/articleid/8219

The grand total of U.S. killed, wounded, injured, and ill for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars reached nearly 67,000 at the end of July 2007, according to casualty reports published by the Department of Defense on August 4, 2007. For July 2007, there were 1,720 U.S. casualties. This means more than 55 U.S. service members killed, wounded, injured, or ill each day.

AMERICAN HISTORY

In all, over a million American troops were killed and wounded in the American Civil War.

The below picture is worth 10,000 words...! GOD BLESS OUR MILITARY. Please press the link below the picture to see a larger copy and the story behind it.

http://www.capveterans.com/american_patriotism/id58.html

Read what it was like for a young, United States Marine to live (24/7) in a peasant-farming village. Press HERE.

Then learn below, this Marine's new battle with the State of New Jersey.

A CRIMINAL CASE, ETHICS CASE, CIVIL CASE OR ALL THREE...

A high level state Supreme Court attorney ethics official, Robert Correale misuses his government and court office to Cover-Up and block ethics violations and legal malpractice charges against his own law firm, Maynard & Truland. After seven years, the Cover-Up leads all the way up to the Governor's Office, Attorney General's Office, an United States Senator and the state's Supreme Court and Superior Court.

This draws sharp contrasts with honorable, professional attorneys.

The corrupt law firm Maynard & Truland was the defendant in the case,

and I was the Plaintiff in the attorney ethics complaint.

Instead of the State giving me "reasonable disability accommodations" for my war-service-related PTSD, the State allowed Maynard & Truland's arrogant lawyers to mock my disability in sworn,

State Supreme Court documents.

http://www.americans-working-together.com/attorney_ethics/id21.html

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So far, our non-profit webpages have already had over 5,325,000 hits for 2007.

PLEASE READ SOME OF FORMER U.S. MARINE AND WEBMASTER'S JACK CUNNINGHAM'S DAY-TO-DAY EXPERIENCES OF LIVING AND SERVING (24/7) IN A VIETNAMESE PEASANT VILLAGE AT: http://www.capveterans.com/jack_cunningham

Barack Obama Is No JFK... Press HERE For Details.

HOLLYWOOD VIETNAM WAR NEWS: Oliver Stone recruits Bruce Willis for My Lai massacre film

http://www.capveterans.com/unknown_war/id57.html

Because guerrilla warfare basically derives from the masses and is supported by them, it can neither exist nor flourish if it separates itself from their sympathies and co-operation….The moment that this war of resistance dissociates itself from the masses of the people is the precise moment that it dissociates itself from hope of ultimate victory…

-Mao Tse-Tung

On March 17, 2007, based on the communication strengths of the internet, an estimated 30,000 patriotic Americans from around the nation, came through an east coast snow and ice storm to stand together at the War Memorials for World War II, the Korea War and the Vietnam War. These proud American flag-wavers stood, and still stand together in full support of America's men and women in military uniforms around the world.

Read the American Legion Magazine's article about the March 17, 2007 Gathering of Eagles. (See pictures.)

http://www.capveterans.com/american_patriotism/id18.html

WHY DO THESE TWO YOUNG MARINES LOOK DRUNK?

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                  Jack, 19          George, 18

     Webmaster Jack Cunningham (Sussex, NJ) and George Dros (Cooperstown, NY) are sitting at a table in a Duc Duc Refugee Village peasant hut, near the village's market place.   The two, young United States Marines are members of CAP Team 2-9-2. (CAP Teams were composed of about 8 to 13 Americans, who lived and served 24/7 in Vietnamese peasant-farming villages.    The Duc Duc Refugee Village was composed of about 2,000 homes.)

In the above picture, Jack's and George's eyes were shut, because of complete exhaustion. It was July 1970. At the time this picture was taken, the Americans in Duc Duc were not sure whether the CAP Unit would be pulled out of the village or whether it would be wiped out. We were experiencing heavy combat. Intelligence reports were coming in daily that the Communists wanted to punish the village while the Americans were still there.

      By wiping out CAP 2-9-2, the terrorists hoped to leave an example to other CAP Villages. With alerts at the highest level, night ambush responsibilities were 100% watch throughout the night. With two long patrols a day going outside the village, it didn't leave much time for the eight or so Americans to sleep.

     Around the day this picture was taken, an intelligence report came in from the 1st Marine Division Headquarters in Da Nang that the high Communist Command wanted to speed up President Nixon's troop pullout from Vietnam. They wanted to embarrass the Americans on a wide-scale and influence the American People into pressuring a faster troop pullout. Their plan called for wiping out the Fifth Marines at An Hoa. It was going to involve thousands of Communist Forces. The Village of Duc Duc was on the large Marine Base's perimeter and was said to be the main route for the Communist attack. Our orders that night in July 1970 was to set up in the most well protected position. Our Cap Unit was expected to try and hold off the Communist drive off as long as possible. We were expected to serve as a warning or trip wire (Queens Gambit) for the Fifth Marines.

Months after Jack and George pulled out of the village of Duc Duc, the Vietnamese communists punished the peasant village by burning it to the ground. Hundreds of civilian men, women and children were killed, wounded and reported missing. Two thousands homes were reduced to ashes.   The blaze could be seen from twenty-five (25) miles away in Da Nang.   It was the light of the blaze that guided United States Marines helicopters to the scene.

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Above is nineteen year old Jack Cunningham with one of the boys from the Duc Duc Refugee Village.

Below is the full picture of the same scene.

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The boy with Jack is the Marine's village boy. These village boys would run errands, cook C-Rations, clean up-after, massage tense muscles and serve as interpreters for the Marines. Usually, each Marine had their own boy to help him around the village.

Many times, adult peasants of Duc Duc would supply these boys with intelligence information of planned terrorist attacks on the village.   Supplying these intelligence reports on terrorist movements and plans may have been the reason why the Duc Duc Refugee Village was later burned to ashes.

A month after the above picture was taken, the boy lost both of his parents in a terrorist rocket attack on their area of the Duc Duc Refugee Village.   After his parents were killed, the boy moved to a relative's home closer to the City of Da Nang; which in the long run saved his life the night of the Duc Duc Massacre.

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Former CAP Marine and webmaster Jack Cunningham and his wife, Joan

Please press HERE for the continuation of Jack's battle.

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder--the ripple effect can be far reaching...   http://www.capveterans.com/americans_who_support_ptsd_veterans/id54.html

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Alan is another politician, who thought that he was above the laws of America. Please press HERE to learn the details.   http://www.capveterans.com/new_jersey_state_goverment/id5.html

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"How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"

John Kerry April 22, 1971

- At the time of his statements before the United States Congress, television news reporters and cameras, and Vietnamese Communist Negotiators in Paris, France, John Kerry was still in the United States Navy.

Learn the details at:

http://www.capveterans.com/john_kerry/id7.html