Gettysburg Was The Deadliest Battle Of The Civil War

Gettysburg Was The Deadliest Battle Of The Civil War

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Over 600,000 American combatants lost their lives in the Civil War. According to The American Battlefield Trust, this was about 2% of the population. Based on similar calculations from the same source, this would be six million Americans today. In eight battles of the Civil War, over 3,000 Union…

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