[DiogenesLamp]

Too bad the north didn't overthrow slavery peacefully with a constitutional amendment. Before the war. It would have avoided some hard feelings. And over a half-million dead.

I saw awhile back where the most definitive and accurate number produced so far places the casualties at 750,000 dead as a direct result of the war.

I've also seen it asserted that an additional 2 million Southerners subsequently died from starvation, disease, and exposure as an indirect consequence of the war.

[jeffersondem]

“I’ve also seen it asserted that an additional 2 million Southerners subsequently died from starvation, disease, and exposure as an indirect consequence of the war.”

No known connection, but I’ve read reports that on a recent weekend over 60 men, women, and children were shot down on the streets of Chicago.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "I've also seen it asserted that an additional 2 million Southerners subsequently died from starvation, disease, and exposure as an indirect consequence of the war."

Totally bogus and based on statistics from the 1870 census which had undercounted Southerners suspicious of Union census takers.
By 1880 conditions improved and straight-lines from 1860 to 1880 show no dip in population counts.
Actual reports of excess deaths, or cemetery populations, do not justify such exaggerated claims.