650,000 soldiers died in the war, two-thirds from disease and one-third from battle wounds. Many more were wounded but recovered.
for the social, political, economic and diplomatic history see [[American Civil War homefront]]
==Names==
The American Civil War has been called by other titles: the '''War Between the States'''was popular in the South before the 1970s, as is the informal title '''The Lost Cause'''. Officially, the United States government has called it the '''War of the Rebellion'''. The term "civil war" is most accurate, as it not only involved state against state from a common country, but the splitting of families as well; fathers would take sides against sons, and brother would fight against brother in many battles. In one sad case, Private Wesley Culp of the 2nd Virginia Regiment would die for the Confederacy at the [[Battle of Gettysburg]], killed on his father's farm. <ref>(TL 15, pp. 154-155)</ref>