An interesting comparison might be Catawba County, NC The population in 1860 was: white and free black: 9258 slave: 1303 TOTAL 1860: 10,561 TOTAL 1870: 10,983 Soldiers killed in war: 632 out of 2,044 who served ----------------------------------------------- At 03:36 PM 4/19/2008, you wrote: >I was wondering how much the population decreased or increased cause of the >war and between 1860 to 1870 I found the population had increase >by at least 7,114.581 my figures maybe a little off >Ann > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Mike Ruddy" <mpruddy@gmail.com> >To: <civil-war@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 2:51 PM >Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] Population > > > > Ann > > > > The population of the United States in 1860 was 31,101,000, of which > > 21,244,000 lived in the North and 10,957,000 in the Confederacy. In the > > Confederate states 5,447,000 of these people were white, 133,000 free > > black, and 3,951,000 were slaves. There were 320,000 deaths in Union > > forces, 3.2 percent of the total male population; and 300,000 deaths in > > the Confederate forces, 9.7 percent of the (white) male population. This > > death rate, with the current population of the United States > > 284,050,000, would be equivalent to 6.5 million men being killed today. > > Most of those killed were teenagers and men in their 20s. > > > > An interesting discussion of population and economics before the Civil > > War: > > http://eh.net/Clio/Conferences/ASSA/Jan_99/coelho.shtml > > Mike > > > > akeegan wrote: > >> Would any one know what the Population of the United States before the > >> Civil War and What was the population after the Civil War? > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> CIVIL-WAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > CIVIL-WAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >CIVIL-WAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message