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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.
According to Wikipedia, about 3 million were killed during the Civil War. However, a famine that was caused by the war and occurred in 1921 caused roughly 6 million more deaths and millions more died from disease and generally horrible conditions in the years of the Civil War. So a death toll of around 10-15 million is not unreasonable for this period. But again its not Stalin.