part of the narrative of the civil war, and we see this not just in established textbooks like jim mcpherson'ssurvey history of the civil war. about a cry for freedom, if i remember correctly. it is a uniquely bloody war. you get this historiography all the time. there is also in high school and middle school. it is in documentaries, it is just sort of assumed that the civil war was uniquely bloody? how is it uniquely bloody? well more americans killed in the american civil war since all american combat that up to its point. that is of itself is a questionable statistics. when you measure the civil war both sides are america. you can't do that with any other war! it obviously presents skewed statistics. it also doesn't take into account a much larger number of people finding on the merits of war, on either side. first of all, the wars preceding the american civil war in american history by european standards are puny! the more of 1812 compared about what's going on in europe at the same time, it looks pretty ridiculously small! finally, the the statistics, the absolute numbers are not proporti

narrative of the civil war and we see this not just in not just an established textbook say like jim mcpherson's a book on a survey history the civil war. that battle cry freedom of member correctly that the the war is uniquely bloody when you get this in american historianography all the time. it's also in high school and middle school curricula. it's in documentaries. it's just kind of assumed the civil war is uniquely bloody. why is he how is it uniquely bloody? well, there's more americans killed in the american civil war that it all american combats combined up to that point. well, then itself is kind of a questionable statistic because when we count casualties in the civil war we see both sides as americans can't do that with 1812 again do that with a mexican-american war you get obviously someone skewed statistics. it also takes into account doesn't take into account the much larger number of people fight in the american civil war on either side. um that the first of all the wars preceding the american civil war in american history european standards are puny. i mean war of 1812 compared