By recent estimates, somewhere between 650,000 and 850,000 men died in the Civil War, with a reasonable figure being about 752,000. Roughly 13 percent of men of military age in the slave states died during the war, twice the figure (6.1 percent) of men born in the free states or territories. More were incapacitated. In Mississippi 20 percent of the state’s revenues in 1866 went to artificial limbs for veterans.
