In May, Union troops in Georgia captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis - who promptly almost got away. With the bulk of the Confederate military strength gone, the end of the war was imminent. Lee's army, who eventually capitulated in April 1865. Grant relentlessly assaulted Petersburg, Virginia for nine months in hopes of destroying Confederate General Robert E. The end of all this bloodshed began when Union General Ulysses S. Adding to the already immense heap of skulls, Confederates used disease, starvation, exposure, and outright execution to kill hundreds of thousands of former slaves during the war, a figure not included in death toll estimates thanks to a deliberate lack of record keeping. wars combined.įor four deadly years, the country endured not only its bloodiest and most vicious military conflict, but also some of its cruelest racial hatred. In fact, more American servicemen died during the Civil War than in all other U.S. With combined civilian and military casualties estimates ranging as high as a million, the Civil War remains the single deadliest event in American history.
In total, eight percent of all white males aged 13 to 43 living in America at the dawn of the Civil War died during the conflict - that's approximately 2.5 percent of the total American population. For comparison, every soldier fighting in the Civil War was 13 times more likely to die in the line of duty than were American soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War. America had never seen anything like the Civil War before.īetween 18, approximately 750,000 soldiers and 50,000 civilians died while another 250,000 soldiers were seriously wounded.
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