U.S. Wars

Wars Participants Deaths in Service
American Revolution
(1775--1783)		 217,000 4,435
War of 18121
(1812--1815)		 286,730 2,260
Indian Wars
(approx. 1817--1898)		 106,000 1,000
Mexican War1
(1846--1848)		 78,718 13,283
Civil War
(1861--1865)		 Union: 2,213,363
Confederate: 1,050,000		 Union: 364,511
Confederate: 133,821
Spanish-American War1
(1898--1902)		 306,760 2,446
World War I1
(1917--1918)		 4,734,911 116,516
World War II1
(1940--1947)		 16,112,566 405,399
Korean War2
(1950--1953)		 1,800,000 36,574
Vietnam War
(1964--1975)		 3,100,000 58,198
Gulf War
(1990)		 1,136,658 383
Afghanistan War
(2001-- )		 (ongoing) 234
Iraq War
(2003-- )		 (ongoing) 1,890
Total 31,142,706 1,140,950

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U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 2004 http://www.va.gov/pressrel/amwars01.htm, The Center for Study of the Korean War: http://www.graceland.edu/koreanwar/facts-fig.html CNN News, http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/ (see U.S. War Casualties) http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf (DoD official casualties as of Sep 8 2005).

Footnote 1: Indicates an official declaration of war by Congress.
Footnote 2: The number of participants and deaths in service for all wars following World War II includes only service members in the Theater of Operations, whereas the number of participants and deaths between the Revolutionary War and World War II includes all service members.