![]() ![]() ![]() The year after the war ended, the state of Mississippi spent 20% of its annual budget on artificial limbs for its veterans ( 3). Countless other soldiers were left disabled. More recent estimates based on comparative census data put the figure closer to 752,000 ( 2). As hard as it is to believe, these numbers may actually be an underestimate of the death toll, given that much of the data regarding deaths of Confederate soldiers was destroyed when Richmond burned on April 2, 1865. ![]() More Americans died in the Civil War than in all other wars combined. Two percent of the population at the time (approximately 620,000) died during the conflict ( 1). The Civil War was fought in over 10,000 places and was the bloodiest war in the history of the United States.
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