William F. Fox’s Regimental Losses In The American Civil War,
1861-1865 (1898) contains a great amount of interesting statistical data.
Near the end of his book, I recently reexamined a table titled “Total Deaths
and Percentages By States,” and I extracted part of the data and placed it in
the table below. For starters, the statistics below pertain only to Union
enlistments, and I have deleted his statistics relating to Veteran Reserves,
Regular Army, as well as several other categories. Curious about losses from the
trans-Mississippi and how they compared to eastern states, I have highlighted
the states and territories from west of the Mississippi. Regrettably, reliable
data from the Confederate states are unavailable.
Source: Fox, William F. Regimental Losses In The American Civil War,
1861-1865. (Albany, NY: Brandow Printing Co., 1898), pp. 526-527.
|
State/Territory
|
Total deaths
|
Troops furnished; three
years standard
|
Percent of total deaths
|
|
Indian Nations
|
1,018
|
3,530
|
28.8
|
|
Tennessee
|
6,777
|
26,394
|
25.6
|
|
Kentucky
|
10,774
|
43,550
|
24.7
|
|
Arkansas
|
1,713
|
7,836
|
21.8
|
|
Alabama
|
345
|
1,611
|
21.4
|
|
Louisiana
|
945
|
4,654
|
20.3
|
|
Vermont
|
5,224
|
26,355
|
19.8
|
|
Michigan
|
14,753
|
76,218
|
19.3
|
|
Iowa
|
13,001
|
68,118
|
19.0
|
|
Maine
|
9,398
|
49,635
|
18.9
|
|
Indiana
|
26,672
|
150,177
|
17.7
|
|
Missouri
|
13,885
|
78,035
|
17.7
|
|
New Hampshire
|
4,882
|
29,150
|
16.7
|
|
Wisconsin
|
12,301
|
73,865
|
16.6
|
|
Florida
|
215
|
1,290
|
16.6
|
|
Illinois
|
34,834
|
210,043
|
16.5
|
|
Kansas
|
2,630
|
16,624
|
15.8
|
|
Ohio
|
35,475
|
225,669
|
15.7
|
|
Pennsylvania
|
33,183
|
214,427
|
15.4
|
|
West Virginia
|
4,017
|
27,518
|
14.5
|
|
Mississippi
|
78
|
545
|
14.3
|
|
Massachusetts
|
13,942
|
98,803
|
14.1
|
|
Minnesota
|
2,584
|
18,554
|
13.9
|
|
New York
|
46,534
|
334,784
|
13.8
|
|
New Jersey
|
5,754
|
44,398
|
12.9
|
|
Maryland
|
2,982
|
24,954
|
11.9
|
|
Connecticut
|
5,354
|
45,181
|
11.8
|
|
North Carolina
|
360
|
3,156
|
11.4
|
|
Delaware
|
882
|
7,888
|
11.1
|
|
Nebraska Territory
|
239
|
2,175
|
10.9
|
|
Rhode Island
|
1,321
|
13,688
|
9.6
|
|
Colorado Territory
|
323
|
3,697
|
8.7
|
|
Texas
|
141
|
1,632
|
8.6
|
|
New Mexico Terr.
|
277
|
4,432
|
6.2
|
|
District of Columbia
|
290
|
6,546
|
4.4
|
|
California
|
573
|
15,725
|
3.6
|
|
Nevada Territory
|
33
|
1,080
|
3.0
|
|
Dakota Territory
|
6
|
206
|
3.0
|
|
Oregon Territory
|
45
|
1,773
|
2.5
|
|
Washington Terr.
|
22
|
964
|
2.2
|
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