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c. ^ Civil War: All Union casualty figures, and Confederate killed in action, from The Oxford Companion to American Military History except where noted (NPS figures). [20] estimate of total Confederate dead from James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1988), 854. Newer estimates place the total death toll at 650,000 ...
Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1918 (54 P) Pages in category "1918 deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,442 total.
Joseph and Michael Hofer were brothers who died from mistreatment at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth in 1918. The pair, who were Hutterites from South Dakota, were among four conscientious objectors from their Christian colony who had been court-martialed and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment for refusing to be drafted in to the United States Army during World ...
American imports and exports plunged by more than two thirds, but since international trade was less than 5% of the American economy, the damage done was limited. The entire world economy, led by the United States, had fallen into a downward spiral that got worse and worse, and in 1931–32 began plunging downward even faster.
The following events occurred in September 1918: . Isaak Brodsky's The Execution of the Twenty Six Baku Commissars, following the Battle of Baku in Azerbaijan. An American gun crew from Regimental Headquarters Company, 23rd Infantry, firing 37mm gun during an advance against German entrenched positions.
City officials projected that the parade would draw only around 10,000 spectators. [3] Following news of the disease reaching Philadelphia, many local physicians were wary of the dangers of holding the parade. However, Dr. Wilmer Krusen, the director of Philadelphia's Department of Health and Charities, allowed the parade to be held. [4]
The American Pageant: A History of the Republic (15th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin., university textbook; Lynch, Timothy J., ed. (2013). The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History, 2 vol. Oup USA. ISBN 978-0199759255. Paxson, Frederic L. Recent History Of The United States 1865–1929 (1929) online old survey by scholar