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New Estimate Raises Civil War Death Toll

• New York Times
For 110 years, the numbers stood as gospel: 618,222 men died in the Civil War, 360,222 from the North and 258,000 from the South — by far the greatest toll of any war in American history.  But new research shows that the numbers were far too low.

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