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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.
Q. How many soldiers died in the Civil War as compared to other American wars? Roughly 1,264,000 American soldiers have died in the nation's wars--620,000 in the Civil War and 644,000 in all other conflicts. It was only as recently as the Vietnam War that the amount of American deaths in foreign wars eclipsed the number who died in the Civil War.