Union Army

The Union Army refers to the United States Army during the American Civil War. The Union Army is also known as the Northern Army or the Federal Army.

Casualties

Of the two and a half million men who served in the Union Army during the Civil War, about 390,000 died in combat, or from injuries sustained in combat, disease, or other causes, and 280,000 were wounded. More than 1 out of every 4 Union soldiers was killed or wounded during the war; casualties in the Confederate Army were even worse—1 in 3 Southern soldiers were killed or wounded. This is by far the highest casualty ratio of any war in which has been America involved. By comparison, 1 out of every 16 American soldiers was killed or wounded in World War II, and only 1 out of every 22 during the Vietnam War.

Related Topics:
Confederate Army - World War II - Vietnam War

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In total, 680,000 men died during the Civil War. This is made all the more devastating by the fact that there were only 34 million Americans at that time, so 4% of the American male population died in the war. In today's terms, this would be the equivalent of 5.9 million American men being killed in a war.

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