Yes, well who can argue with Wikipedia? </sarcasm>
The fact of the matter is that the confederate records are so poor that the 94K figure is just as valid as your 72K figure is, perhaps more so. Here's a website created by a retired army general that explains when and how the 94K estimate was arrived at: Link
Do you have a source for your count other than Wikipedia? And pulling the figures out of that bodily orifice where you head usually resides doesn't count.
Oh, and WikiAnswers gives the 94K figure as well. So even your secondary source contradicts itself.
How you could call yourself a conservative is beyond me.
I could try and explain but without pictures and using big words I doubt you'd understand.
Of course, I should no better to argue with a simpleton.
And yet here you are. Of course when it comes to simpletons who better than you would know?
Whatever you say sh—bag.