ACW Casuality rates

I'm not certain I understand what the OP is asking for, but here are the approximate casualty ratios between the CSA and USA in the American Civil War.
Battle Deaths
1.18 :1.00

Total Deaths
1.38 :1.00

Total Casualties
1.60 : 1.00

Chance of Being Killed or Wounded in Either Army
1/2680 : 1/3007
 
Its late so I'm kind of tired so here goes. If a war the scale of ACW were fault today with the same casualty rates what would numbers look like?
 
Wouldnt civilian casualities be much higher nowdays also.

Yeah, and odds are you'd see a different distribution of the causes of death (not nearly so large a proportion of combatants dead from disease, perhaps), among other things. But I think the question is just what would the casualties look like if proportionally applied to the modern US?
 
There's a big problem on comparing casualty rates between eras. A losing army in the 1600s could lose 70-80% of its men, since once the rout happened, many would be taken prisoners or be killed by the enemy cavalry in pursuit. Usually, only ascattered elements of the infantry and the remnants of the cavalry got away, the rest was killed or taken prisoner.

Back in the olden days a battle was a short, brutish and concentrated affair. Gettysburg was almost 200 000 men fighting for three days on maye two sqaure kilometers. With that many man on that small area, high casualties are unavoidable.

Modern war is about lines and fronts and troops are very spread out, thus casualties are much lower.
 
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