Nope. Not even close. I think the combined KIA total was under 10,000.
Appears that the idiot writer mistook casualties for dead. Unless he is 14 years old. That’s about when I first figured it out.
7,058 combined KIA with another 10k missing.
Gettysburg was 3 days fighting and just 30 miles away is Antietam - I believe the author means 50,000 killed and wounded but I thought Gettysburg was more like 30,000 casualties- with 10-15K killed and missing. I was just at Gettysburg and Antietam a couple weeks ago, I remember reading Antietam had 25,000 casualties in a single day
It is a fact that were about 50,000 casualties at Gettysburg. But as you correctly noted, casualties doesnt mean deaths.
To illustrate that with an example, two of the casualties. were Union Colonel Chamberlain and Confederate General Kemper. Some years later Chamberlain became Governor of Maine, Kemper became Governor of Virginia.
Battle of Antietam is considered the most bloody battle of Civil War.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/gettysburg
ESTIMATED CASUALTIES: 51,112
https://www.historynet.com/gettysburg-casualties/
7,058 were fatalities (3,155 Union, 3,903 Confederate).
I do not know if they are counting the number who died of wounds shortly afterwards. Many Confederates were taken to a Union Hospital on David’s Island in Long Island, where Walt Whitman, among others tended the wounded.
I recently learned that my Great-Grandfather (sic) who was born in Dublin, was at First Manassas, and listed as deserting on the way to Chancellorsville, though he challenged that status. I do not know how successfully.
THANK YOU rexthecat. I read “50,00”” deaths and thought if this article was so very wrong in the lead sentence, was it worth wasting the time to read. Had it not had the photo, I would have moved on immediately. I am disappointed it took so many comments before some Freeper like you said “whoa.”