re: #131 Justanotherhuman

Pretty modern, that history. Those weapons are mechanical, and in the case of cannons, can result in numerous kills at one time. We had established govts, the printing press and eyewitness reporting, with people involved in counting losses and recovering the dead and wounded.

It’s also rather sad that the Civil War saw the likeliest highest number of US residents killed in any conflict in which the US was involved.

That would actually be pretty likely if you think about it. Both sides were US residents and thus all casualties fall into that category. And it was essentially the only large-scale conflict fought on US territory with fairly modern weapons. The later world wars were generally fought outside US territory and the continental US in particular.