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Battle Campaign Date Nearest town Total Union Confederacy Total Total Strength Commander Casualties Casualties as % of strength Gettysburg: Gettysburg campaign: July 1 –3, 1863 Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: 93,921 71,699 165,620: George G. Meade: Robert E. Lee: 23,049 28,063 51,112: 24.54% 39.14% 30.86% Chickamauga: Chickamauga campaign ...
American Civil War: 9,500+ Battle of Chickamauga: 1863 American Civil War: 34,624 [302] Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: 1864 American Civil War: 30,000 [303] Battle of Stones River: 1862–1863 American Civil War: 24,000 [304] Battle of the Wilderness: 1864 American Civil War: 28,700 Battle of Cold Harbor: 1864 American Civil War: 18,000 ...
The northernmost battle in the Civil War. July 28, 1863: Battle of Stony Lake: North Dakota (Dakota Territory at the time) D: Union: Dakota War of 1862: Sioux forces escape Union forces in pursuit. August 17 – September 9, 1863: Second Battle of Fort Sumter: South Carolina: B: Confederate: Union's massive bombardment and naval attack fails to ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
The following is a list of wars caught by number of U.S. battle deaths suffered by military forces; deaths from disease and other non-battle causes are not included. Although the Confederate States of America did not consider itself part of the United States, and its forces were not part of the U.S. Army, its battle deaths are included with the ...
Losses were far higher than during the war with Mexico, which saw roughly 13,000 American deaths, including fewer than two thousand killed in battle, between 1846 and 1848. One reason for the high number of battle deaths in the civil war was the continued use of tactics similar to those of the Napoleonic Wars, such as charging.
The number of casualties is simply the number of members of a unit who are not available for duty. For example, during the Seven Days Battles in the American Civil War (June 25 to July 1, 1862) there were 5,228 killed, 23,824 wounded and 7,007 missing or taken prisoner for a total of 36,059 casualties.
He survived the war and wrote a memoir of his wartime experiences at age 81. [11] His story is cited extensively in the awarding-winning children's book, The Boys' War. [1] The most celebrated schoolboy performance of the war was the baptism of fire of the Virginia Military Institute Cadet Corps at the Battle of New Market. The corps was 215 ...