Professor: Civil War Death Toll May Be Really Off

from National Public Radio

The accepted number for deaths in the American Civil War for more than a century has been 620,000 from both sides of the conflict. But now a history professor at the State University of New York in Binghamton believes that number is far too low and the real number is closer to 750,000. Robert Siegel talks with J. David Hacker about how he came to his new number.

Broadcast Dates

• All Things Considered, May 29, 2012