The Beginning of the Ming Dynasty. During the final 40 years of the Yuan Dynasty era (1279â1368), there were famines, drought, flooding on the Yellow River, a bubonic plague pandemic, and other natural disasters.
Cause of Death The Stonewall Jackson Monument on the Manassas Battlefield. By Rob Shenk â CC BY-SA 2.0. Four days later he begins to complain of chest pains and difficulty breathing. His surgeon and doctor, Hunter Holmes McGuire, diagnoses pneumonia in the right lung. Pneumonia was one of the most common causes of death during the Civil War. Doctors of the time sometimes relied on methods that were fast going out of favor. Stonewall was given mercury for its strong laxative properties and to induce vomiting.
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.