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Did you know that approximately 625,000 men died in the Civil War?

More Americans than in World War I, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined.

If the names of the Civil War dead were arranged like the names on the Vietnam Memorial,

it would stretch over 10 times the wall's length.

2% of the U.S. population died.

That's the equivalent of 6 million men today. Hi, I'm

Shannon Rice, the podcast producer here at C-SPAN, and on this week's lectures in history,

we examine the causes and military objectives of the Civil War prior to the day-long

staff riot at Gettysburg. U.S. Army War College professor Douglas Dowd describes the

Confederate and Union approaches to fighting the war, as well as key personnel on both sides.

We'll be back after this.

The union officer you see in the front of this slide is Harrison Jeffords.

At the beginning of the war, he's a 26-year-old.

He signs up with the rest of his town to go ahead and join.

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