American Civil War Information

• The Union Army of 2,100,000 soldiers was nearly twice the size of the Confederate Army of 1,064,000.
• The Civil War was the deadliest war in American history. There were around 210,000 soldiers killed in action and 625,000 total dead.
• 66% of the deaths in the war were due to disease.
• Lincoln's famous Gettysburg address was only 269 words long.
• Many of the Southern men already knew how to shoot a gun from hunting. The Northern men tended to work in factories and many didn't know how to fire a gun.