What is American Civil War casualties?
[[File:Burial of the dead on the Antietam battlefield army.mil-2008-09-10-145638.jpg|thumb|right|350px|{{Center|Burial of the dead on the Antietam battlefield}}]] '''American Civil War casualties''' are those [[soldier]]s, both [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] and [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]], who died, were [[wound]]ed, went missing or were [[wikt:capture|capture]]d.<ref name=Tucker317>''American Civil War: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection '', eds. Spencer Tucker; James R Arnold; Roberta Wiener; et al. (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013), p. 317</ref> The [[American Civil War]] was the nation's [[blood]]iest [[war]].<ref name=cwcCWT>{{cite web |url=http://www.civilwar.org/education/civil-war-casualties.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/ |title=Civil War Casualties |publisher=Civil War Trust |access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref> The violence in battles such as [[Battle of Shiloh|Shiloh]], [[Battle of Antietam|Antietam]], [[Battle of Stones River|Stones River]] and [[Battle of Gettysburg|Gettysburg]] shocked everyone in the country, both [[Northern United States|North]] and [[Southern United States|South]].<ref name=cwcCWT/> It also shocked international observers.<ref name=cwcCWT/> Of those who died, by far the leading cause of death was [[disease]].<ref name=cwcHN>{{cite web |url=http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-casualties |title=Civil War Casualties |publisher=HistoryNet |access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref> The exact number of dead will never be known with any certainty. All Civil War casualty numbers are [[estimate]]s, no matter what the source. For over a hundred years the total number of dead has been accepted by most [[historian]]s as '''618,222''', generally rounded off to 620,000.<ref name=cwcACWS>{{cite web |url=http://www.americancivilwarstory.com/civil-war-casualties.html |title=Civil War Casualties |publisher=AmericanCivilWarStory.com |access-date=10 September 2016}}</ref> Newer estimates have put the number at about '''750,000''' or about 20[[%]]