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2022-12-21 02:39:20 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 32F5A29D0AB69211B9C7C62C4F56638CB6835C6229A52E49F96E1A57401BBE44
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Although the total number of casualties in the U. S. Civil War was over 620,000, these numbers included both sides and all races. There certainly were not 600,000 "white" lives lost in order to "free the slaves." https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/civil-war-casualties#:~:text=Roughly%202%25%20of%20the%20population,high%20as%206%20million%20souls.
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