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From the War of Independence to Operation Enduring Freedom - blood spilled from sea to shining sea.

The following is a listing of US casualties in the various conflicts that have been a part of the country's history. The following numbers reflect only reported war deaths and exclude those wounded and/or missing. The Civil War maintains the highest American casualty total of any conflict.

In its first 100 years of existence, over 683,000 Americans lost their lives, with the Civil War accounting for 623,026 of that total (91.2%). Comparatively, in the next 100 years, a further 626,000 Americans died through two World Wars and several more regional conflicts (World War 2 representing 65% of that total). Using this comparison, the Civil War becomes the costliest war that America has ever fought.

Sources: U.S. Army Military History Institute; iCasualties.org; Wikipedia.
American Rev. War
25,000
(1775-1783)
Northwest Indian War
~1,056
(1785-1795)
Quasi-War
514
(1798-1800)
War of 1812
~20,000
(1812-1815)
1st Seminole War
36
(1817-1818)
Black Hawk War
305
(1832)
2nd Seminole War
1,535
(1835-1842)
Mexican-American War
13,283
(1846-1848)
3rd Seminole War
26
(1855-1858)
American Civil War
625,000
(1861-1865)
Indian Wars
919
(1865-1898)
Great Sioux War
314
(1875-1877)
Spanish-American War
2,446
(1898)
Philippine-American War
4,196
(1898-1913)
Boxer Rebellion
131
(1900-1901)
Mexican Revolution
~35
(1914-1919)
Haiti Occupation
148
(1915-1934)
World War 1
116,516
(1917-1918)
North Russia Campaign
424
(1918-1920)
AEF Siberia
328
(1918-1920)
Nicaragua Occupation
48
(1927-1933)
World War 2
405,399
(1941-1945)
Korean War
36,516
(1950-1953)
Vietnam War
58,209
(1955-1975)
El Salvador Civil War
37
(1980-1992)
Beirut
266
(1982-1984)
Grenada
19
(1983)
Panama
40
(1989)
Persian Gulf War
258
(1990-1991)
Provide Comfort
19
(1991-1996)
Somalia Intervention
43
(1992-1995)
Bosnia
12
(1995-2004)
NATO Yugoslavia
20
(1999)
Enduring Freedom
2,356
(2001-2014)
Iraqi Freedom
4,489
(2003-2012)
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