North Carolina American Civil War Casualties Fatalities Killed Wounded Captured Missing
in Action List of North Carolina Civil War Battles Battlefields History Details Confederate Army Statistics
North Carolina American Civil War Casualties
(Killed and Wounded)
North Carolina American Civil War Fatalities*
Killed in Action
| STATE |
Killed
(Officers) |
Killed
(Enlisted) |
Total |
Died of Wounds
(Officers) |
Died of Wounds
(Enlisted) |
Total |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| North Carolina |
677 |
13,845 |
14,522 |
330 |
4,821 |
5,151 |
Died from Diseases
| STATE |
Officers |
Enlisted |
Total |
|
|
|
|
| North Carolina |
541 |
20,061 |
20,602 |
Death Total
| KIA |
Wounds |
Diseases |
Total |
| 14,522 |
5151 |
20,602 |
40,275 |
|
|
|
|
*Fatalities
Equal Dead; Casualty Does Not Equal Dead
Casualties
include three categories: 1) dead (aka fatalities, killed-in-action and mortally wounded);
2) wounded; and 3) missing or captured. In general terms, casualties of Civil War battles included 20% dead and 80% wounded.
Of the soldiers who were wounded, about one out of seven died from his wounds. Over 2/3 of the estimated 620,000 men who gave their lives in the Civil War died from disease, not from battle.
"When one totals the North Carolinians that died in World War I, World
War II, Korea and Vietnam, it is far less than North Carolina's American Civil War death toll."
North Carolina War Deaths
The following numbers reflect deaths (excluding wounded and missing)
Source: North Carolina Museum of History
| Civil War |
992,622 (1860) |
40,275 (CSA) |
| World War I |
2,206,287 (1910) |
2,375 |
| World War II |
3,571,623 (1940) |
7,000 |
| Korean War |
4,061,929 (1950) |
876 |
| Vietnam War |
4,556,155 (1960) |
1,572 |
Advance to:
Recommended Reading: North
Carolina and the American Civil War
Sources
United States
Department of Veterans Affairs; Library of Congress: American War Casualty Lists and Statistics; William F. Fox, Regimental
Losses in the American Civil War; Walter Clark, Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the
Great War 1861-1865; D. H. Hill, Confederate Military
History Of North Carolina: North Carolina In The Civil War, 1861-1865; Weymouth T. Jordan and Louis H. Manarin, North
Carolina Troops, 1861-1865; North Carolina Office
of Archives and History; North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources; North Carolina Museum of History; State Library
of North Carolina; North Carolina Department of Agriculture; University Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill; National Park Service: American Civil War; National Park Service: Soldiers and Sailors System; Library of Congress;
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; National
Archives and Records Administration.
North Carolina American Civil War Casualties Fatalities Killed Wounded Captured Missing in Action
List of North Carolina Civil War Battles Battlefields History Details Confederate Army Statistics
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