<P> Confederate records compiled by historian William F. Fox list 74,524 killed and died of wounds and 59,292 died of disease . Including Confederate estimates of battle losses where no records exist would bring the Confederate death toll to 94,000 killed and died of wounds . Fox complained, however, that records were incomplete, especially during the last year of the war, and that battlefield reports likely under - counted deaths (many men counted as wounded in battlefield reports subsequently died of their wounds). Thomas L. Livermore, using Fox's data, put the number of Confederate non-combat deaths at 166,000, using the official estimate of Union deaths from disease and accidents and a comparison of Union and Confederate enlistment records, for a total of 260,000 deaths . However, this excludes the 30,000 deaths of Confederate troops in prisons, which would raise the minimum number of deaths to 290,000 . </P> <P> The United States National Park Service uses the following figures in its official tally of war losses: </P> <P> Union: 853,838 </P> <Ul> <Li> 110,100 killed in action </Li> <Li> 224,580 disease deaths </Li> <Li> 275,154 wounded in action </Li> <Li> 211,411 captured (including 30,192 who died as POWs) </Li> </Ul>

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