Found this graph online for anyone who might still be confused. I think this makes it much more clear.

  • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Just for reference. It was more than I thought.

    Our national estimate is 698,000 Civil War deaths. This is substantially higher than the conventional historical estimate of 618,000 but lower than the most recent estimate of around 750,000 deaths based on a 1% census sample.

    https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2414919121

    New estimates of US Civil War mortality from full-census records
    Joan Barceló, Jeffrey L. Jensen, Leonid Peisakhin, and Haoyu Zhai
    Edited by Margaret Levi, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; received July 25, 2024; accepted September 25, 2024