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New Estimates of US Civil War Dead

on Thu, 04/12/2012 - 22:38

Ok, this is definitely outside the realm of topics normally covered by this website, however, not only is today (April 12th) the 151st anniversary of the beginning of the US Civil War (1861-1865), the most destructive war in the history of the United States, but groundbreaking new research has emerged showing that the war was likely even more deadly than previously thought.

A demographic historian from Binghamton University in New York, J.