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Re: 150th Anniversary
... another thing to consider is that prior to the 20th Century, almost every army to ever take the field suffered more casualties from disease than they did from actual battle field deaths.
If the armies of WW I and WW II had taken the field during the 19th Century, at the time of the U.S. Civil War, the death totals would have been much, much higher. More Yanks and Rebs died from disease than from bullets or cannon fire.
We have to take disease into account when comparing the casualty totals from war prior to the 20th Century with those during and after that century.
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