Following the start of the Arab Spring in 2011, protests in Syria against the Assad administration were violently suppressed and a civil war began. It is estimated that there were at least 45,000 and possibly as many as 51,000 casualties in the two armies at Gettysburg. How many casualties were there in the Battle of Gettysburg? The American Civil War was one of the deadliest wars in American History. This Memorial Day, we decided to take a close look at the number of American service members who lost their lives during wartime in Nearly 500,000 military personnel died during the U.S. Civil War. George Gordon Meade’s Army of the Potomac lost 28 percent of the men involved; Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia suffered over 37 percent. But most Northerners joined the army to put down the rebellion and preserve the union. Early in the war, many free blacks volunteered for service with the Continental Army, but were rejected. 212,938 Union and Confederate soldiers lost their lives directly in battle during the Civil War. The following numbers reflect only reported war deaths and exclude those wounded and/or missing. For 110 years, the numbers stood as gospel: 618,222 men died in the Civil War, 360,222 from the North and 258,000 from the South — by far the greatest toll of any war in American history. About 7,000 African Americans served on the Continental side. Very few. Although most battles were fought in Europe, America was very active in the war, also suffering great losses. By 2012 there were several armed opposition groups operating in the country, including the Free Syrian Army , formed in July 2011 by officers who defected from the Syrian Armed Forces . Later in the war, when voluntary enlistments were low, various states offered freedom to slaves who fought. About 625,000 soldiers lost their lives total, taking into account KIAs and those who died off the field from injuries. Maybe Robert Gould Shaw and other officers of the 54th Massachusetts, who were white Boston bluebloods leading an all-black regiment. The American Civil War is a devastating mark on the history of America. The Bougainville conflict, also known as the Bougainville Civil War, was a multi-layered armed conflict fought from 1988 to 1998 in the North Solomons Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG) between PNG and the secessionist forces of the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), and between the BRA and other armed groups on Bougainville. Gettysburg was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Ultimately more than 620,000 Americans' lives were lost in the four-year war that ended in a Confederate defeat. The number of lives lost was substantial, and the social and economic repercussions, though some needed, changed the face and future of the United States forever. 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