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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 ...
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.
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. [1] [note 1] The word casualty has been used in a military context since at least 1513. [2]
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.
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 ...
American Civil War: 0.6–1 million [87] [88] 1861–1865 United States vs. Confederate States: North America Mozambican Civil War: 0.5–1 million [89] [90] 1977–1992 People's Republic of Mozambique, later Republic of Mozambique, and allies vs. RENAMO and allies Mozambique First Sudanese Civil War: 0.5–1 million [91] [92] 1955–1972
The Battle of Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of both the Civil War and of any battle in American military history, claiming over 50,000 combined casualties. [15] Union Major General George Meade 's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by Confederate General Robert E. Lee 's Army of Northern Virginia , halting Lee's invasion of he North and ...
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought over three days from July 1 to July 3, 1863, in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, proved the deadliest battle in both the American Civil War and of any battle in American history with over 50,000 casualties.