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Originally Posted by 2mnycars
I had no idea how horrible the Civil War really was. Alumnireview states, "The war was the bloodiest in American history. By the time the last shot was fired, more than 750,000 Americans had been killed."
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That is a huge number.... considering that the USA population was about 31 million people at the start of the war. In today's numbers that would amount to about 8.5 million people being killed. Devastating numbers no matter how you look at it.