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An exact count of soldiers who died in combat and from disease during the Civil War is impossible, historians say. Prof Hacker estimates between 650,000 - 850,000 deaths, but believes the most likely number was about 750,000. That is equivalent to 7.5 million US dead in 2012 numbers.
Continue reading the main story. For 110 years, the numbers stood as gospel: 618,222 men died in the Civil War, 360,222 from the North and 258,000 from the South â by far the greatest toll of any war in American history.