By the end of the American Civil War, as many as 851,000 soldiers were dead, according to the book “Civil War History,” by J. David Hacker, which Kent State University Press published in 2011.
By the end of the American Civil War, as many as 851,000 soldiers were dead, according to the book “Civil War History,” by J. David Hacker, which Kent State University Press published in 2011. Hacker, a demographic historian at Binghamton University in New York, studied the national census figures from that time and wrote previous estimates of 720,000 dead may be too low by about 20%, said Molly Sergi, a full-time KSU history instructor. Sergi spoke May 3 at the Geauga Economic Leadership breakfast at KSU – Geauga about the effects of the Civil War on the U.S. population. Her...
