VETERANS OF THE UNITED STATESBy: Cletus Schmidt, Statistics of wars fought by the armed forces of the United States furnished by the Veteran’s Service Committee of Elks Lodge 1199 with cooperation of the Disabled American Veterans Chapter of Bismarck, ND.Name of War: # Served: #Deaths:Revolutionary War: 290,000: 4,435:War of 1812: 287,000: 2,260:Mexican War: 79,000: 13,283:Civil War Union: 2,213,000: 364,511:Confederate: 1,000,000: 164,821:Spanish American War: 392,000: 2,446:World War I: 4,744,000: 116,516:World War II: 16,535,000: 405,399:Korean War: 6,807,000: 54,246:Vietnam War: 9,834,000: 56,121:Persian Gulf: 467,160: 293:
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