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Apx. 29,000 casualties. As is often the case in wars and sieges, the majority of the deaths in the Civil war were caused by disease. Field hospitals often became centers for infection and disease as mass numbers of wounded soldiers would be housed together in filthy conditions with little or no sanitation.he Civil War was the deadliest war in the history of the United States.
Infectious diseases ruthlessly exploit the conditions. created by war, affecting both armies and civilians. During the Napoleonic wars, eight times more. people in the British army died from disease than. from battle wounds. In the American civil war, two-. thirds of the estimated 660 000 deaths of soldiers. were caused by pneumonia, typhoid, dysentery, and. malaria, and this death toll led to a 2-year extension. of the war. These diseases became known as the. âthird armyâ.