1 Click here to see a copy of a 1997 letter from BSA concerning the unacceptable and unwarranted practice of turning new Cub Scouts on their heads when pinning on the Bobcat Badge. 2  It ends with the following statement: 3  There is no point to this type of ceremony, and it contains significant potential for harm.
As many as 620,000 individuals lost their lives during the Civil War, more than in any other war before or since. Confederate deaths were about 260,000 of which 93,000 were killed in combat, while Union deaths were 360,000 of which 110,000 deaths were in combat. Disease was the major cause of death in the civil war. Out of 620,000 deaths, over 400,000 were from diseases.
The total number of American soldiers who have died on the battlefield in wars is somewhere around 660,000 (most of these deaths came during WWII, WWI, and the Civil War). The total number of people who have died in these wars (including disease, etc.) breaks down something like this:o give you an example, in World War II, about 300,000 Americans died on the battlefield, about 15 million soldiers worldwide died on the battlefield, but about 58 million people died in total, including soldiers and civilians.