[samtheman]

Better check your Civil War statistics. The Union Army had beaucoup African-American troops. It's beyond belief that none of them died in the war.

This post wins the I'm Not A Genius But I Play One On The Internet Award.

First, you demand that we check our "statistics" and then you cite "beaucoup" as your own statistical example.

Second, the sentence "It's beyond belief that none of them died" leaves the reader wondering:

a) Are you amazed that none of them died?
b) Are you being sarcastic and are certain that many of them died (using the "beaucoup statistical standard" as your measurement test)?

Either way. Your post gets my nomination for an award.

[Redgirl]

Now, now, you know racism doesn't exist once you cross the Mason-Dixon line.... /sarcasm

[muawiyah]

http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/other/stats/warcost.htm is a fairly decent source of numbers. http://www.va.gov/pressrel/amwars01.htm is also pretty good.

But whatever you use there are several hundred thousand references to Civil War statistics.

[muawiyah]

I have what some Southern sympathizers and Unreconstructed Confederate terrorists might consider a peculiar attitude toward our Civil War dead ~ namely that all honor and glory goes to the Union Army, and to all of our dead. Anything less than that is anti-American!