40+ American Civil War Statistics/Facts [2022]

Here are 20 American Civil War statistics and facts (these are the most up to date facts from 2022!).

The following statistics cover a wide variety of topics including the civil war death toll, the bloodiest battles, North/South demographics, racial demographics of the Union and Confederate armies, number of factories in the North and the South and much more!

Battles

• The bloodiest battle of the American Civil War was the Battle of Gettysburg with 51,000 casualties (Statista)
• The bloodiest single day of the American Civil War was Antietam with 23,000 casualties (History)
• There were 34,624 casualties during the Battle of Chickamauga (Statista)
• There were 30,000 casualties during the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse (Statista)
• There were 29,800 casualties during the Battle of the Wilderness (Statista)
• There were 24,000 casualties during the Battle of Chancellorsville (Statista)
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Population Statistics

• There was 31,443,321 people in the American population in 1860, prior to the American Civil War (The Latin Library)
• 2.5% of the population died during the American Civil War (PBS)
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• If 2.5% of the population died today, that would be 7 million people (PBS)
• 2.1 million people fought for the Union forces (PBS)
• 880,000 people fought for the Confederate forces (PBS)

Casualties Statistics

• 750,000 people died during the American Civil War (Facing History)
• 1 in 5 soldiers died during the Civil War (NPS)
• Around 1.5 million is the number of casualties of the Civil War (Battlefield)
• 40% of American Civil War dead were never identified (PBS)
• ⅔ of all Civil War dead came from disease, not the battlefield (PBS)
• 211,411 Union soldiers were taken captive (NPS)
• 462, 634 Confederate soldiers were taken captive (NPS)
• 15.5% was the mortality rate for Union captives (NPS)
• 12% was the mortality rate for Confederate captives (NPS)
• Until the Vietnam War, the number killed in the Civil War surpassed all other wars in American history combined (including the Mexican War, World War I and World War II) (History)
• 360,222 Union deaths (NPS)
• 258,000 Confederate deaths (NPS)
• One in thirteen surviving Civil War soldiers returned home missing one or more limbs (History)
• 303,356 Union soldiers were reinterred in 74 congressionally mandated national cemeteries by 1871 (History)
• Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries (History)

African American Soldiers

• There were 4 million slaves in America in 1860 (PBS)
• 180,000 African Americans served in the American Civil War (PBS)
• 40,000 African Americans died during the American Civil War (Archives)
• 66% of African American soldiers who died were never identified (PBS)
• 9:1 Ratio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on the battlefield, largely due to discriminatory medical care (History)
• 178,975 African American Union Civil War soldiers served (NPS)

Native American Soldiers

• 3,530 Native Americans served in the Union Army (NPS)

North vs. South

• Union privates received $13 wages (The MUA)
• Confederate soldiers received $11 wages (The MUA)
• There were 20,000 miles of railroad tracks in the North (NPS)
• There were 9,000 miles of railroad tracks in the South (NPS)
• There were 1,700 miles of railroad tracks in the Border States (NPS)
• There were 101,000 factories in the North (NPS)
• There were 21,000 factories in the Confederacy (NPS)
• There were 9,000 factories in the Border States (NPS)
• South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union (NPS)

Andy Lucien