Inside 7 Of The Bloodiest Civil War Battles

Around 620,000 men died during the Civil War — roughly two percent of the United States' population at the time.

After the battle of Cold Harbor in the spring of 1864, Ulysses S. Grant was called a “butcher.” The Union general had sent wave after wave of Union soldiers against entrenched Confederates near Mechanicsville, Virginia, and at one particularly bloody point in the fighting, some 7,000 men were killed or wounded in just 30 minutes. But Cold Harbor was far from the bloodiest Civil War battle to take place during the course of the conflict.

During the war, which lasted from 1861 to 1865, hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their lives. The horrors of Spotsylvania and Shiloh left fields of dead, and Chickamauga and Chancellorsville resulted in tens of thousands of casualties. A