Gettysburg and "casualites".

I'm watching "Gods and Generals", the prequel to "Gettysburg".

The Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War is considered to be the bloodiest 3-day battle in American history. But just to clarify, the casualty count INCLUDES wounded, captured and missing - it's not all those killed). It's always bothered me that "casualties" is slightly misleading - people think over 50,000+ soldiers died in three days at Gettysburg. Almost 8,000 were killed. That's a big difference.

Union casualties were 23,055 (3,155 killed, 14,531 wounded, 5,369 captured or missing). Confederate casualties are more difficult to estimate. Many authors cite about 28,000 overall casualties, but the definitive 2005 work, Regimental Strengths and Losses, documents 23,231 (4,708 killed, 12,693 wounded, 5,830 captured or missing).