“the price in blood” - richard geib · 2019. 2. 27. · unburied dead in forest near cold...
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“The Price in Blood” Combat Deaths in the Civil War and the
Poetry of Walt Whitman
By Mr. Richard Geib
United States History and Literature 11th grade
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Lecture Outline 1. Why the Civil War?
2. Technology and Tactics
3. Civil War hospitals (“Fix Me” video”)
4. Whitman war poetry (“Dances Wolves”)
Six officers of the 17th New York Battery
Gettysburg, Pa., June 1863
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The Price in Blood: Civil War Dead At least 618,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and
some claim the toll reached 700,000.
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The Price in Blood: Civil War Dead
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Pre-Civil War Attacks
Older tactics of the “direct attack” in formation.
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Military Tactics and Technology
Vastly superior firepower makes older, Napoleonic military tactics outdated. The frontal charge
against the modern canon and rifled musket only gets soldiers killed in large numbers.
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WHAT DID THEY DO BEFORE?
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Union Civil War Dead The Union armies had from 2,500,000 to 2,750,000 men. Their
losses by the best estimates:
Battle Deaths: 110,070 ; Disease, etc. 250,152
Total: 360,222
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100,000
150,000
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300,000
Union Civil War Dead
Battle Deaths
Disease, etc
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Confederate Civil War Dead
The Confederate strength, known less accurately because
of missing records, was from 750,000 to 1,250,000.
Estimated losses:
Battle Deaths: 94,000 ; Disease, etc. 164,000
Total: 258,000
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40,000
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Confederate Civil War Dead
Battle Deaths
Disease, etc
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Civil War Dead Total
It is best estimated that the Union lost 360,222 and the
Confederacy lost 258, 000.
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100,000
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Civil War Dead
Union
Confederacy
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The North is rocked, but…
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…but the South is shattered!
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Pre-Civil War Populations
According to the census of 1860, the North contains 23
states and approximately 22 million people and the
South has 11 states and some 9 million people.
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10,000,000
15,000,000
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25,000,000
Population
Union
Confederacy
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Union Armies Age
21 and Under: 30%
21-24: 30%
25-30: 30%
Over 30: 10%
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The Boys’ War
• More than 2,000,000 Federal
soldiers were 21 and under.
• More than 1,000,000 were 18 or
under.
• About 800,000 were 17 or under.
• About 200,000 were 16 or younger.
• About 100,000 were 15 or younger.
• 300 were 13 and younger -- mostly
as drummer and fifers, but also as
fighters.
• 25 were 10 and under Portrait of Boy Soldier
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Battle of Gettysburg
Union Confederacy
Dead 3,155 3,903
Wounded 14,529 18,735
Missing 5,365 5,425
Total 23,049 28,063
Duration: Three days
Grand total of Wounded
and Dead: 51,112
Confederate Dead at Gettysburg
July 1863
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FACT: Gettysberg is the largest battle ever fought in the
Western Hemisphere.
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Battle of The Seven Days
Union Confederacy
Dead 1,7343 3,478
Wounded 8,062 16,261
Missing 6,075 875
Total 15,849 20,614
Duration: Seven days
Grand Total of Wounded
and Dead: 36,463
Spotsylvania Court House, Va., vicinity. Body of another Confederate soldier
near Mrs. Alsop's house
May, 1864
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Battle of Chickamagua
Union Confederacy
Dead 1,657 2,312
Wounded 9,756 14,674
Missing 4,757 1,468
Total 16,170 18,484
Duration: Two days
Grand Total of Wounded
and Dead: 34,654
Portrait of Pvt. George F. Norris, Company K,
5th Vermont Infantry, U.S.A
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Battle of Chancellorsville
Union Confederacy
Dead 1,575 1,665
Wounded 9,594 9,081
Missing 5,676 2,018
Total 16,792 12,764
Duration: Four days
Grand Total of Wounded
and Dead: 29,556
Three Dead in the Woods Near Little Round Top in Pa.
July 1863
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Battle of Sharpsburg/Antietam
Union Confederacy
Dead 2,108 2,700
Wounded 9,549 9,024
Missing 753 2,000
Total 12,410 13,724
Duration: One day
Grand Total of Wounded
and Dead: 26,134
Confederate Dead Gathered for Burial at Antietam
September 1862
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Battle of Second Manassas/
Bull Run
Union Confederacy
Dead 1,724 1,481
Wounded 8,372 7,627
Missing 5,958 89
Total 16,054 9,197
Duration: Three days
Grand Total of Wounded
and Dead: 25,251
Unburied Dead in Forest
Near Cold Harbor, Va. in 1862
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Battle of Stone’s River /
Murfreesborg
Union Confederacy
Dead 1,677 1,294
Wounded 7,543 7,945
Missing 3,686 2,476
Total 12,906 11,795
Duration: Two days
Grand Total of Wounded
and Dead: 24,701
Portrait of Pvt. Robert Patterson, Company
D, 12th Tennessee Infantry, C.S.A.
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Battle of Shiloh
Union Confederacy
Dead 1,754 1,723
Wounded 8,408 8,012
Missing 2,885 959
Total 13,047 10,694
Duration: Two days
Grand Total of Wounded
and Dead: 23,741
Dead Confederate soldiers in the
"slaughter pen" at the foot of Little
Round Top, Gettysberg in 1863.
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Battle of Fredericksburg
Union Confederacy
Dead 1,284 595
Wounded 9,600 4,061
Missing 1,769 653
Total 12,653 5,309
Duration: Two days
Grand Total of Wounded
and Dead: 17,962
Unburied Dead in Forest
Near Cold Harbor, Va. in 1862
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Battle of the Wilderness May-June 1865
Some of the great blood baths of the war came as General Grant drove on
Richmond in the spring of 1864. Confederate casualties are missing for this
campaign but were enormous.
Body of a Confederate soldier near Mrs. Alsop's house in vicinity of
Spotsylvania Court House, Va. May 1865
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Federal Losses in the Battle of the Wilderness The Wilderness, May 5-7: 17,666
Spotsylvania, May 10 and 12: 10,920
Drewry’s Bluff, May 12-16: 4,160
Cold Harbor, June 1-3: 12,000
Petersburg, June 15-30: 16,569 These total 61,315 with rolls of the missing incomplete.
Petersburg, Va. Dead Confederate soldier with gun
April 3, 1865
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THE FACES OF THE DEAD
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Savage Station, Va. Field hospital after the battle of June 27.
June 30, 1862
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Cold Harbor, Va. African Americans collecting bones of soldiers killed in the battle.
April 1865
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Washington, D.C. Patients in Ward K of Armory Square Hospital.
1865 August
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Washington, D.C. Patients in ward of Harewood Hospital; mosquito nets
over beds.
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Unknown location. Embalming surgeon at work on soldier's body.