A census-based Count of the Civil War Dead

Civil War History

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 307-348

  Hacker, J David ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOLDIER; SURVIVOR; WAR;

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR; CENSUSES; DATA COLLECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MORTALITY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84858604512     PISSN: 00098078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/cwh.2011.0061     Document Type: Review

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