Historian Revises US Civil War Casualty Statistics

Fascinating:

Historian Revises US Civil War Casualty Statistics | Via Meadia: The Civil War was even bloodier than we thought.

For over a century historians assumed 618,222 was a reasonably accurate estimate of the Civil War dead.

Binghamton University Professor David Hacker’s new study challenges those numbers. Instead of relying upon scattered military records that could be incomplete or difficult to track down like the 1890s count (compiled by William Fox and Thomas Livermore), Hacker used census data before and after the war, taking into account immigration, natural decay, to come up with the new number: 750,000, a full 20% more than the previous estimate.