Why did the Confederacy lose the American Civil War? The numbers made Union victory almost inevitable - population, railroads, factories and Gettysburg casualties explain it.

In this History By Numbers breakdown of the American Civil War, we compare Union vs Confederate population (18.5M vs 9M), $234M vs $74M in bank deposits, 70% of railroads, 80% of factories, and the bloodiest battles from Antietam (22,726 in one day) to Gettysburg (51,116).

0:00 Population and demographics
1:04 Military and social forces
2:16 Economic and industrial power
3:48 Military reach and technology
5:20 Battles and casualties
7:28 The human cost of war
9:29 Aftermath and reconstruction

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