United States casualties of war

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Military casualties suffered by the United States of America in war or deployments:

War or conflict	Date	Deaths			Wounded	Total dead and wounded	Missing	Sources/ notes
War or conflict	Date	combat	other	total	Wounded	Total dead and wounded	Missing	Sources/ notes
American Revolutionary War	1775–1783	8,000	17,000	25,000	25,000	50,000		^[a]
Quasi-War	1798–1800	20		20	42	62		^{[citation needed]}
Barbary Wars	1801–1815	35		35	65	100		^{[citation needed]}
Other actions against pirates	1800–1900	10		10	21	31		^{[citation needed]}
Northwest Indian War	1785–1795
War of 1812	1812–1815	2,260	~17,000	~20,000	4,505	~25,000		^[1]
First Seminole War	1817–1818
Black Hawk War	1832
Second Seminole War	1835–1842	328		~1,500
Mexican War	1846–1848	1,733	11,550	13,283	4,152	17,435		^[2]
Civil War: total	1861–1865	212,938		~625,000				^[b]
Union		140,414	224,097	364,511	281,881	646,392
Confederate		72,524		~260,000
Indian Wars	1865–1898	919			1,025			^[2]
Korean expedition	1871	3		3	13	16		^{[citation needed]}
Spanish-American War	1898	385	2,061	2,446	1,622	4,068		^[2]
Philippine War	1898–1902	1,020	3,176	4,196	2,930	7,126		^[2]
Boxer Rebellion	1900–1901	37		37	204			^{[citation needed]}
Mexican Revolution	1914–1919	35+			70			^{[citation needed]}
Occupation of Haiti	1915–1934	146			26+			^{[citation needed]}
World War I	1917–1918	53,402	63,114	116,516	204,002	320,518	3,350	^[2]^[c]
World War II	1941–1945	291,557	113,842	405,399	670,846	1,076,245	30,314	^[2]
Korean War	1950–1953	33,746	?	36,516	103,284	?	8,177	^[2]
Vietnam War	1964–1973	47,355	10,796	58,151	153,303	211,454	2,489	^[2]
Iran Hostage crisis	1980	0	8	8	5			^{[citation needed]}
El Salvador Civil War	1980–1992	9		20	35			^{[citation needed]}
Beirut deployment	1982–1984	256		266	169			^{[citation needed]}
Bombing of Libya	1986	2	0	2	0	2	0	^{[citation needed]}
Persian Gulf escorts	1987–1988	39	0	39	31			^{[citation needed]}
Invasion of Grenada	1983	18	1	19	119			^{[citation needed]}
Invasion of Panama	1989	23		40	324			^{[citation needed]}
Gulf War	1990–1991	148	151	299	467			^[2]
Somalia	1992–1993	30		45	153			^{[citation needed]}
Haiti	1994–1995	1		4	3			^{[citation needed]}
Bosnian War	1995?	1		12	6			^{[citation needed]}
Kosovo	1999	0		2	?			^{[citation needed]}
Afghanistan and the Philippines	2001–present	197	173	370	1,141	1,511		^{[citation needed]}
Iraq War	2003–present	2,631	605	3,236	24,187	27,423		^[d]
Haiti	2004	0		0	1			^{[citation needed]}

1 Notes
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

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a. ^{^} Revolutionary War: All figures from the Revolutionary War are rounded estimates. Commonly cited casualty figures provided by the Department of Defense are 4,435 killed and 6,188 wounded, although the original government report that generated these numbers warned that the totals were incomplete and far too low.^[3] Nevertheless, the numbers are often repeated without this warning, such as on the United States Department of Veteran Affairs website.^[4] In 1974, historian Howard Peckham and a team of researchers came up with a total of 6,824 killed in action and 8,445 wounded. Because of incomplete records, Peckham estimated that this new total number of killed in action was still about 1,000 too low.^[5] Military historian John Shy subsequently estimated the total killed in action at 8,000, and argued that the number of wounded was probably far higher, about 25,000.^[6] The "other" deaths are primarily from disease, including prisoners who died on British prison ships.

b. ^{^} Civil War: All Union casualty figures, and Confederate killed in action, from The Oxford Companion to American Military History.^[2] Estimate of total Confederate dead from James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1988), 854. See also Casualties of the American Civil War.

c. ^{^} World War I figures include expeditions in North Russia and Siberia. See also World War I casualties

d. ^{^} Iraq War. See also Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003. Sources:

Breakdown of killed in action vs. other deaths [1] (select "US only" tab for current total)
Total wounded in action [2]

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^ The "other" deaths were primarily from disease. Donald R. Hickey, The War of 1812: A Forgotten Conflict (University of Illinois Press, 1989), 302–03.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j John W. Chambers, II, ed. in chief, The Oxford Companion to American Military History. (Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-507198-0), 849.
^ Howard H. Peckham, ed., The Toll of Independence: Engagements & Battle Casualties of the American Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974), xii.
^ Fact Sheet: America's Wars, accessed December 2006.
^ Peckham, Toll of Independence, 131.
^ John Shy, A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence (revised edition, University of Michigan Press, 1990, ISBN 0-472-06431-2), 249–50.

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