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Question:NORTH: 2,200,000 fought
110,000 killed in action (or in battle)
360,000 total dead,
275,200 wounded

SOUTH: 1,064,000 fought
93,000 killed in action,
258,000 total dead,
137,000+ wounded

Over 10,000 military engagements took place during the war, 40% of them in Virginia and Tennessee.

The war, the deadliest in American history, caused 620,000 soldier deaths and an undetermined number of civilian casualties.
Seven Deep South cotton states seceded by February 1861, starting with South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. These seven states formed the Confederate States of America (February 4, 1861), with Jefferson Davis as president; In April and May 1861, four more slave states seceded and joined the Confederacy: Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. Virginia was split in two, with the eastern portion of that state seceding to the Confederacy and the northwestern part joining the Union as the new West Virginia.
Twenty-three states remained loyal to the Union: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. During the war, Nevada and West Virginia joined as new states of the Union. Tennessee and Louisiana were returned to Union control early in the war.

The territories of Colorado, Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington fought on the Union side.
Several slave-holding Native American tribes supported the Confederacy, giving the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) a small bloody civil war.
The Border states in the Union were West Virginia (which was separated from Virginia and became a new state), and four of the five northernmost slave states (Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky).
Missouri voted decisively to remain within the Union in an elected convention on secession .
Kentucky did not secede; for a time, it declared itself neutral. However, the Confederates broke the neutrality by seizing Columbus, Kentucky in September 1861. That turned opinion against the Confederacy, and the state reaffirmed its loyal status, while trying to maintain slavery.

MAJOR BATTLES :
1861--Fort Sumter
Siege of Atlanta
March 8, 1862: Battle of the "Ironclad" ships, CSS (Confederate States Ship) Virginia--aka Merrimack--against
USS Monitor (ended in a tie or draw)
July 1861--1st battle at Manassas, Virginia (aka First Bull Run). It was in this battle that Confederate General Thomas Jackson received the nickname of "Stonewall" because he stood like a stone wall against Union troops.
1862: Peninsula Campaign; Battle of Seven Pines: Seven Days Battles; Northern Virginia Campaign, Second Battle of Bull Run; Antietam (pronounced "an-TEE-tum")--aka Sharpsburg; Battle of Fredericksburg (over twelve thousand Union soldiers were killed or wounded ); Battle of Pea Ridge (or Elkhorn Tavern); Battle of Shiloh ("shy-LOW)
1863: Battle of Chancellorsville; Battle of Gettysburg (July 1 to July 3, 1863, the war's turning point); Vicksburg, Miss. fell the next day (South had 28,000 casualties, compared to
23,000 for the North); Battle of Chickamauga (pronounced as "chick-uh-MAH-guh"); Battle of Vicksburg, 3rd Battle of Chattanooga, including the Battle of Lookout Mountain and the Battle of Missionary Ridge.
1864: Shenandoah Valley (Virginia); the Wilderness, Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor; the Bermuda Hundred river bend (the North had 65,000 casualties in seven weeks); the Siege of Petersburg; Sherman's "March to the Sea".
1865: Battle of Five Forks ; Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House (as a sign of respect, and his anticipation of bringing the Confederacy back into the Union, Northern general U.S. Grant allowed Southern general Robert E. Lee to keep his officer's saber and his horse, Traveller.)
On June 23, 1865, at Fort Towson in the Choctaw Nations' area of the Oklahoma Territory, Stand Watie signed a cease-fire agreement with Union representatives, becoming the last Confederate general in the field to stand down. The last Confederate naval force to surrender was the CSS Shenandoah on November 4, 1865, in Liverpool, England.

NOTES:
1. The Emancipation Proclamation enabled African-Americans, both free blacks and escaped slaves, to join the Union Army. About 190,000 volunteered,further enhancing the numerical advantage the Union armies enjoyed over the Confederates, who did not dare emulate the equivalent manpower source for fear of fundamentally undermining the legitimacy of slavery. Emancipated slaves fought in several key battles in the last two years of the war.

2. European immigrants joined the Union Army (23.4% of all Union soldiers were German-Americans; about 216,000 were born in Germany).

3. All slaves in the Confederacy were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

4. The war produced about 970,000 casualties (3% of the population), including approximately 620,000 soldier deaths--—two-thirds by disease.The war accounted for more casualties than all other U.S. wars combined.

5. About 4 million black slaves were freed in 1865.

6. Based on 1860 census figures, 8% of all white males aged 13 to 43 died in the war, including 6% in the North and an extraordinary 18% in the South.

7. 180,000 African Americans comprising 163 units served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: NORTH: 2,200,000 fought
110,000 killed in action (or in battle)
360,000 total dead,
275,200 wounded

SOUTH: 1,064,000 fought
93,000 killed in action,
258,000 total dead,
137,000+ wounded

Over 10,000 military engagements took place during the war, 40% of them in Virginia and Tennessee.

The war, the deadliest in American history, caused 620,000 soldier deaths and an undetermined number of civilian casualties.
Seven Deep South cotton states seceded by February 1861, starting with South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. These seven states formed the Confederate States of America (February 4, 1861), with Jefferson Davis as president; In April and May 1861, four more slave states seceded and joined the Confederacy: Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia. Virginia was split in two, with the eastern portion of that state seceding to the Confederacy and the northwestern part joining the Union as the new West Virginia.
Twenty-three states remained loyal to the Union: California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. During the war, Nevada and West Virginia joined as new states of the Union. Tennessee and Louisiana were returned to Union control early in the war.

The territories of Colorado, Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington fought on the Union side.
Several slave-holding Native American tribes supported the Confederacy, giving the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) a small bloody civil war.
The Border states in the Union were West Virginia (which was separated from Virginia and became a new state), and four of the five northernmost slave states (Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky).
Missouri voted decisively to remain within the Union in an elected convention on secession .
Kentucky did not secede; for a time, it declared itself neutral. However, the Confederates broke the neutrality by seizing Columbus, Kentucky in September 1861. That turned opinion against the Confederacy, and the state reaffirmed its loyal status, while trying to maintain slavery.

MAJOR BATTLES :
1861--Fort Sumter
Siege of Atlanta
March 8, 1862: Battle of the "Ironclad" ships, CSS (Confederate States Ship) Virginia--aka Merrimack--against
USS Monitor (ended in a tie or draw)
July 1861--1st battle at Manassas, Virginia (aka First Bull Run). It was in this battle that Confederate General Thomas Jackson received the nickname of "Stonewall" because he stood like a stone wall against Union troops.
1862: Peninsula Campaign; Battle of Seven Pines: Seven Days Battles; Northern Virginia Campaign, Second Battle of Bull Run; Antietam (pronounced "an-TEE-tum")--aka Sharpsburg; Battle of Fredericksburg (over twelve thousand Union soldiers were killed or wounded ); Battle of Pea Ridge (or Elkhorn Tavern); Battle of Shiloh ("shy-LOW)
1863: Battle of Chancellorsville; Battle of Gettysburg (July 1 to July 3, 1863, the war's turning point); Vicksburg, Miss. fell the next day (South had 28,000 casualties, compared to
23,000 for the North); Battle of Chickamauga (pronounced as "chick-uh-MAH-guh"); Battle of Vicksburg, 3rd Battle of Chattanooga, including the Battle of Lookout Mountain and the Battle of Missionary Ridge.
1864: Shenandoah Valley (Virginia); the Wilderness, Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor; the Bermuda Hundred river bend (the North had 65,000 casualties in seven weeks); the Siege of Petersburg; Sherman's "March to the Sea".
1865: Battle of Five Forks ; Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House (as a sign of respect, and his anticipation of bringing the Confederacy back into the Union, Northern general U.S. Grant allowed Southern general Robert E. Lee to keep his officer's saber and his horse, Traveller.)
On June 23, 1865, at Fort Towson in the Choctaw Nations' area of the Oklahoma Territory, Stand Watie signed a cease-fire agreement with Union representatives, becoming the last Confederate general in the field to stand down. The last Confederate naval force to surrender was the CSS Shenandoah on November 4, 1865, in Liverpool, England.

NOTES:
1. The Emancipation Proclamation enabled African-Americans, both free blacks and escaped slaves, to join the Union Army. About 190,000 volunteered,further enhancing the numerical advantage the Union armies enjoyed over the Confederates, who did not dare emulate the equivalent manpower source for fear of fundamentally undermining the legitimacy of slavery. Emancipated slaves fought in several key battles in the last two years of the war.

2. European immigrants joined the Union Army (23.4% of all Union soldiers were German-Americans; about 216,000 were born in Germany).

3. All slaves in the Confederacy were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.

4. The war produced about 970,000 casualties (3% of the population), including approximately 620,000 soldier deaths--—two-thirds by disease.The war accounted for more casualties than all other U.S. wars combined.

5. About 4 million black slaves were freed in 1865.

6. Based on 1860 census figures, 8% of all white males aged 13 to 43 died in the war, including 6% in the North and an extraordinary 18% in the South.

7. 180,000 African Americans comprising 163 units served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy.

Interesting question. What I do know is that North Carolina did not want to secede, but being surrounded by Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina didn't have much of a choise in the end. Still more North Carolinians died in a war which was about economics and political power. Among the yankee gripes was the fact that there were so many blacks, free and slave, in the South who were counted in the census thus giving Southern states more representation in congress.