![]() ![]() A similar rate, about 2%, in the United States today, would mean six million fatalities. The Civil War’srate of death, its incidence compared with the size of the American population, was six times that of World War II. The number of soldiers who died between 18, generally estimated at 620,000, is approximately equal to the total of American fatalities in the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, combined. ![]() In 1861, the United States entered into a Civil War that would prove to be bloodier than any other conflict in American History - a war that would foreshadow the slaughter of the Western Front in World War and the global carnage of the 20th century. The great fight at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, April 7, 1863, by Courier & Ives. ![]()
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