And may I quote you on that? You see, I would be very hesitant to make such a blatant statements, but I've always believed in the adage that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
I've seen numbers. They might not be right, but it seemed as if the person who wrote them did his homework.
The “homework” was statistical extrapolation assuming same # of deaths as whatever his baseline is. That doesn’t prove anything.
And that is why you need to spend serious time reading actual history.
Shelby Foote for one said he spent years looking for real evidence of all those alleged civilian deaths, reading old news reports, even to the point of researching graveyards, and could find nothing.
They never happened.
What did happen was the 1870 census when many Southerners refused to be counted, understating the South's population and leading to claims of mass deaths.
By 1880's census they all were counted and all those statistically dead people restored to political life, a miracle of representative government, for sure.