![]() Civil War News, 1962 trading card set from Topps Company, Inc. THE IRISH CIVIL WAR, 1922-1923: A MILITARY STUDY OF THE CONVENTIONAL PHASE, 28 JUNE - 11 AUGUST, 1922. The Irish Civil War was one of the many conflicts that followed. Guatemalan Civil War; Part of the Central American crisis and Cold War: Ixil people carrying their loved ones' remains after an exhumation in the Ixil Triangle in. ![]() The Inside Story of the Kushner- Bannon Civil War. I. Buzzing Flies. The West Wing of the White House is a cramped collection of tiny offices, some of them windowless, linked by narrow hallways. New inhabitants are sometimes surprised at just how small the physical quarters are. The current configuration results from a Depression- era renovation designed to increase the workspace of the president’s staff without expanding the physical footprint of the building. Parts of the West Wing can feel grungy and old, and look as if they have been repainted far too often. Many of the offices contain mousetraps to fight the inevitable infestation. Because the windows don’t open, for security reasons, large flies buzz near the ceilings. The relentless pressures and close quarters mean that someone in the West Wing always seems to be sick. You’ll hear White House veterans say that working in the West Wing is like being on a submarine, sealed off from the rest of the world. You are right on top of each other and you see each other all the time,” recalled one West Wing veteran. The day- to- day volume of stuff that comes your way in the White House is overwhelming, especially to a new group.” What sustains you, this person went on, are the stated principles of the president and the dedication of the people working with him to pursue that vision. Ken Duberstein, a White House chief of staff to Ronald Reagan, told me, “There’s only one agenda in any White House, and it’s the president’s.”VIDEO: The Trump Presidency Is Already in Trouble. But now, in full view of the country and the world, we are watching what happens when a president is elected on the basis of an incoherent and crowd- sourced agenda, one that pandered to white nationalists and stoked economic anxiety. When that same president is someone who has never managed a large bureaucracy and brings almost no close associates who have. And when some of the aides he haphazardly acquired a few months before taking office care more about their own ambitions than his own—whatever they are. Now combine all that with the inevitable transition from a helter- skelter campaign metabolism to the grinding process of governance. What is happening inside the White House, according to a senior official who is close to the president, is a “reversion to the mean”—a correction of sorts. When narrative gets bigger than the reality”—for an individual, for a campaign, for an administration—“there is nowhere to go but down.” Two years ago, when Donald J. Trump descended the escalator in Trump Tower with his wife, Melania, on announcement day, the entire campaign consisted of three people: Corey Lewandowski, the campaign manager; Hope Hicks, the press secretary; and Trump himself, the candidate. The campaign evolved multiple times after that. We are in a position now where things are in evolution again,” this senior official told me. We keep adjusting for what is now.”II. I Didn’t Ask for This”When Donald Trump moved into the Oval Office, he redecorated decisively, replacing his predecessor’s maroon drapes with heavy gold ones. He also brought with him a collection of advisers who, according to another senior administration official, not only have “breathtaking personal agendas” and are willing to “malign the people around him” but are also prepared to say, “We are going to do it our way and push through what we want whether it is right for him or not.” The two former presidents Trump is most often compared to are Reagan (for the unserious image that Reagan had as a B- list movie actor) and Richard Nixon (for his authoritarian tendencies, his paranoia, and his antipathy toward the press). But those presidents, this senior administration official explained, had “a real ideology and a real set of issues, and that doesn’t exist here.”Unlike previous presidents, Trump has also neglected to appoint a professional staff with a high- level governing or White House background. This is due in part to ignorance. As reported in The Wall Street Journal, in his first meeting with Barack Obama, Trump seemed surprised by the scope of the president’s duties, and his aides seemed unaware that there wasn’t a permanent West Wing staff that he would simply inherit. To get a sense of the current West Wing senior staff, I spoke with members of the administration, including some of those closest to the president, as well as with friends and former classmates of the senior team. Nearly all of them asked for anonymity in order to be able to speak freely. The West Wing right now is a place where the ground is always shifting. With the exception of two family members—Trump’s daughter Ivanka, an unpaid assistant to the president, and her husband, Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to the president—no one on Trump’s topmost White House staff has been with the new president for very long. That presents a sharp contrast with the teams around Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Trump’s staff is as unbridled as the president himself. His advisers came together almost by accident and by default. They exhibit loyalty to their boss in front of the camera, only to whisper about him (and about their rivals, often in vicious terms) when the camera is gone. Before they joined the campaign, many of the current staffers had shown no allegiance to Trump. Steve Bannon, at the moment still the chief strategist, and the self- styled intellectual leader of Trump’s base of “deplorables,” as Hillary Clinton called them, had tried on several other politicians—Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, Ben Carson, Ted Cruz—before settling on Trump, whom Bannon referred to last year in Vanity Fair as a “blunt instrument” for his own cause. Reince Priebus, Trump’s current chief of staff, is hardly a longtime loyalist. According to two senior administration officials, shortly before the election Priebus, then the chairman of the Republican National Committee, was heard telling aides that Trump was likely going to lose, and that if he did it should not be seen as the fault of the R. N. C. At the same moment, Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, who had previously worked on the Cruz campaign, was heard telling reporters that if Trump lost it would be the fault of the R. N. C. (This despite her clarification on Twitter on Election Day that she wasn’t blaming the R. N. C. or Priebus.) The Priebus- Conway story circulates inside the Ivanka camp as a way of reminding everyone who Trump’s real allies are. But even Ivanka has told friends, almost by way of apology, “I didn’t ask for this.” Senior administration officials told me that both Bannon and Priebus partisans have spent hours on the phone with reporters, planting stories about each other and their colleagues. VIDEO: Steve Bannon, the Shadow President. III. Battle of the Brands. All West Wing staffs come to reflect the presidents they serve. Trump’s West Wing is beginning to resemble the family real- estate business Trump grew up in, which has always had more in common with The Godfather than with The Organization Man. Trump has pulled family close. Kushner now occupies the office that is physically closest to the Oval Office. Ivanka Trump has taken on an official role despite her initial intention to simply be “a daughter.” The appointees who have been championed by Ivanka and Jared seem at the moment to be on the rise—no surprise to some. There is an asymmetry here. You can’t compare family members to other staffers,” the West Wing veteran told me. You aren’t going to fire your son- in- law or your daughter.” A close associate of Trump’s narrowed that safe zone even further: “Everyone is dispensable, except one person: Ivanka.” But, this person warned, speaking of Jared and Ivanka, “at some point you get them out of this,” because otherwise they are going to get destroyed. The best rule of thumb for survival may come from Thomas Barrack Jr., a longtime friend and ally of the president’s: “Anyone who works for him and becomes victim to unfounded hubris will quickly be taken down to size.”No one has been secure in his or her position. Trump’s initial selection for national- security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned after misleading White House officials about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the United States. Six weeks after his departure, he offered to testify before Congress, possibly about his former colleagues, in exchange for immunity. Next up was Kellyanne Conway, who was effectively sidelined. Then it was Bannon’s turn. Civil War Casualties. How Many Died in the Civil War? Dead at Spotsylvania, 1. A casualty is someone injured, killed, captured, or missing in a military engagement. The Civil War had plenty of all these. The casualty totals in the Civil War can only be treated as estimates. The exact numbers cannot be exactly known. Due to exhaustive research by many credible and earnest Civil War scholars, the casualty numbers presented here can be considered to be as accurate as possible. I have relied on trustworthy sources for the numbers and statistics I share in this post. The exact number of Civil War casualties will forever be a topic for debate. One fact we can be certain of regarding Civil War casualty counts, the carnage of the Civil War was immense. War and disease provided the Grim Reaper with all he desired. Let us not neglect to know that the cold numbers and statistics shown in this post are facts that represent real people. People who fought in a vicious war, who bled red blood whether they were clothed in blue or gray. People who lost limbs or were severely disfigured, people who died miserable, slow deaths of disease or injury, people who perished instantaneously in groups during battle, or slowly had life ebb away as they sprawled alone and incapacitated in the aftermath of a major battle or minor skirmish. Many died agonizing and feverish deaths of disease. These numbers are human beings. Do We Know How Many Died? Dead at Petersburg, 1. The quick and simple answer is that no one knows for sure exactly how many died in the Civil War, neither for the North or the South. An estimate of the deaths in the Civil War is 6. This means that of men of service age, one out of eleven men died during the Civil War years between 1. Below is a chart showing how the Civil War compares in total deaths to other wars: Deaths in American Wars. War. Deaths. Revolutionary War. War of 1. 81. 22,2. Mexican. 13,2. 83. Civil War. 62. 3,0. Spanish- American. World War I1. 16,5. World War II4. 06,7. Korea. 54,2. 46. Vietnam. How Many Casualties in the Civil War? For both sides in the Civil War, 4. When added to the estimate of 6. Civil War casualties is 1,0. Greatest Union Battle Losses. Date. Battle. Killed. Wounded. Missing. Aggregate. July 1- 3, 1. Gettysburg. 30. 70. May 8- 1. 8, 1. 86. Spotsylvania. 27. May 5- 7, 1. 86. 4. Wilderness. 22. 46. Sept. 1. 7, 1. 86. Antietam(+)2. 10. May 1- 3, 1. 86. 3. Chancellorsville. Sept. 1. 9- 2. 0, 1. Chickamauga. 16. 56. June 1- 4, 1. 86. Cold Harbor. 18. 44. Dec. 1. 1- 1. 4, 1. Fredericksburg. 12. Aug. 2. 8- 3. 0, 1. Manassas(++)1. 74. April 6- 7, 1. 86. Shiloh. 17. 54. 84. Stone’s River. 17. June 1. 5- 1. 9,1. Petersburg (Assault)1. Not including South Mountain and Crampton’s Gap.++ Includes Chantilly, Rappahannock, Bristoe Station, and Bull Run Bridge. Source of table: William E. Fox, Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1. The Union Armies lost 1. This does not include the missing in action. Of the 1. 10,0. 70 deaths from battle, 6. This table shows how this loss was divided among the different arms of the service: Service. Officers. Enlisted Men. Total. Ratio of Officers to Men. Infantry. 54. 61. Sharpshooters. 23. Cavalry. 67. 19. 92. Light Artillery. 11. Heavy Artillery. 51. Engineers. 47. 27. General Officers. General Staff. 18—- 1. Unclassified—- 1. Total. 63. 65. 10. Source of table: William E. Fox, Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1. The losses in the three main categories of Union troops were: KILLED OR DIED OF WOUNDSClass. Officers. Enlisted Men. Total. Ratio of Officers to Men. Volunteers. 60. 78. Regulars. 14. 42. Colored Troops. 14. Total. 63. 65. 10. Source of table: William E. Fox, Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1. DIED BY DISEASE. NOT INCLUDING DEATHS IN PRISONS. Class. Officers. Enlisted Men. Total. Ratio of Officers to Men. Volunteers. 24. 71. Regulars. 10. 42. Colored Troops. 13. Total. 27. 12. 19. Source of table: William E. Fox, Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1. Deaths in the Union Army, from all causes, as officially classified. DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES: Cause. Officers. Enlisted Men. Aggregate. Killed, or died of wounds. Died of disease. 27. In Confederate prisons. Accidents. 14. 23. Drowning. 10. 64. Sunstrokes. 53. 08. Murdered. 37. 48. Killed after capture. Suicide. 26. 36. 53. Military executions. Executed by the enemy. Causes known, but unclassified. Cause not stated. Aggregate. 9, 5. 84. NOTE: The deaths from accidents were caused, principally, by the careless use of fire- arms, explosions of ammunition, and railway accidents; in the cavalry service, a large number of accidental deaths resulted from poor horsemanship. Source of table: William E. Fox, Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1. DEATHS IN CONFEDERATE ARMIESA severe facial wound suffered in the Civil War. James B. Fry, United States Provost Marshal- General, provides a report in 1. Confederate losses. Fry’s report is compiled from the muster- rolls which are on file in the Bureau of Confederate Archives. This report is incomplete, as Confederate records can be, and often are, spotty. For example, in these records the Alabama rolls are mostly missing. Nonetheless, the numbers are worth noting. From General Fry’s report, the following tables were created by William E. Fox in his Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1. Killed. STATEOfficers. En. Men. Total. Virginia. North Carolina. 67. South Carolina. 36. Georgia. 17. 25. 38. Florida. 47. 74. 67. Alabama. 55. 38. 55. Mississippi. 52. 56. Louisiana. 70. 25. Texas. 28. 13. 20. Arkansas. 54. 20. Tennessee. 99. 20. Regular C. S. Army. Border States. 92. Totals. 20. 86. 50. Source of table: William E. Fox, Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1. Died of Wounds. STATEOfficers. En. Men. Total. Virginia. North Carolina. 33. South Carolina. 25. Georgia. 50. 15. 79. Florida. 16. 49. 05. Alabama. 91. 81. 19. Mississippi. 75. 25. Louisiana. 42. 82. Texas. 13. 52. 85. Arkansas. 27. 88. Tennessee. 49. 82. Regular C. S. Army. Border States. 61. Totals. 15. 52. 20. Source of table: William E. Fox, Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1. The Horror of the Civil War: Wounds, Dying, and Death.
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