CIVIL WAR STATISTICS

Widow

      "We are a people; to whom the past is forever speaking... Far out of that dark nowhere which is the time before we were born, men (& women) who were flesh of our flesh & bone of our bone went through fire & storm to break a path to the future.   What they did - the lives they lived, the sacrifices they made, the stories they told, the songs they sang, and finally, the deaths they died - make up a part of our experience.   We cannot cut ourselves off from it.   It is as real to us as something that happened last week".

Written by Bruce Catton.


  
DEAD AND WOUNDED 1861-1865
  DEAD WOUNDED TOTAL
UNION 364,511 288,881 646,392
CONFEDERATE 260,000 194,000 454,000
TOTAL 624,511 475,881 1,100,392
POWs: 462,000 Confederate/26,000 died
POWs: 211,000 Union/30,000 died


"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

Written by George Santayana 1863-1952,
U.S. poet, essayist, and philosophical writer; born in Spain.

In repose