For over 110 years the number of the fallen have stood as definitive. Beginning with the overwhelming task of using surviving battlefield reports and documents, two former Union officers undertook the calculation of our American Civil War dead by hand in 1889. Their resulting number has, though questioned, has now been used to illustrate the horrific cost paid by both sides in our nation's second war for independence for over three generations. That toll is now revealed to be far greater, according to a new analysis of census data by Binghamton University historian J. David Hacker.
http://www.binghamton.edu/inside/index.php/inside/story/history-professor-civil-war-death-toll-has-been-underestimated
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/civil-war-toll-up-by-20-percent-in-new-estimate.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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