United States History Student Edition

“ I wrung the blood from the bottom of my clothing before I could step, for the weight about my feet.” — Clara Barton, remembering the Battle of Antietam

A casualty is a military person lost through death, injury, sickness, or capture or through being missing in action. 750,000 Killed Civil-war Casualties Civil War Casualties

400,000 Captured 476,000 Wounded

» In his 1985 painting Fight for the Colors, artist Don Troiani depicts Union and Confederate soldiers in close combat at the Battle of Gettysburg. Capturing the “colors,” or flag, from the opposing side was considered a great honor.

Military Deaths in American Wars This bar graph shows the number of soldiers who died in all the wars in which the United States fought. More than 750,000 soldiers died in the Civil War, or 2 percent of the population.

Civil War World War II

405,399 750,000 116,516 58,209 36,516 25,000 20,000 13,283

World War I

Vietnam War

Korean War Revolutionary War War of 1812 Mexican War Iraq-Afghanistan Spanish-American War Gulf War

7,056 2,446 258

PHOTO: (t) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-108564]; (c)Don Troiani/Private Collection/Bridgeman Images; TEXT: Epler, Percy H. The Life of Clara Barton. New York: Macmillan, 1915.

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