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Total American Total War Costs
Deaths in Battle (Period Value)
Revolutionary War 4,435 Revolutionary War 101 million
War of 1812 2,260 War of 1812 90 million
nindian Wars 2.000 Indian Wars 260 million
lexican War 1. Mexican War 71 million
Civil War 623,026 Civil War 4,183 million
Spanish-American War 385 Spanish-American War 283 million
World War | $3,402 World War | 20 billion
World War Il 291,557 | World War I 296 billion
Korean War 33,739 Korean War 30 billion
Vietnam War 47,434 Vietnam War 111 billion
Persian Gulf War 148 Persian Gulf War_61 billion
Sources
Department of Veterans Affairs, “Americ's Wars.” Lat modified Apri 2015, htp/vnwwva.gov/opalpublcations/fatshestsifs_americas_wars. pf
Long, €. 8, and Barbara Long, The Chil War Day by Day; an manac, 1861-1865, Garden City, N.Y Doubleday, 1971,
‘Wagner, Margaret E. Gary W. Gallagher, and Paul Finkelman, eds. The Library of Congress Civ War Desk Reference. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002,
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