As history has shown, the Civil War tore families apart; the horrors of this war over all others is most often told in the pitting of one family member against another: brother against brother, sometimes father against son.

But there is another, less talked-about, tragic aspect to the Civil War that, sadly, connects it to every other war ever fought: that of dividing families by calling men and boys to their duties - and sometimes to their deaths.

Some men fought to protect their own land and never saw the road to battle extend beyond their own fencelines, while others travelled with their regiments - sometimes many hundreds of miles - to serve their countries. 

This map shows the United States of America and the Confedrate States of America in 1863. The red stars indicate states from which men left but never returned, instead coming to their final rest in Annapolis National Cemetery.

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Alabama 345 1,466	Kansas 2,630	Minnesota 2,584	Pennsylvania 33,183
Connecticut 5,354	Kentucky 10,774 **	Missouri 13,885 **	Rhode Island 1,321
Delaware 882 **	Louisiana 945 6,545	New Hampshire 4,882	Tennessee 6,777 6,414
District of Columbia 290	Maine 9,393	New Jersey 5,754	Vermont 5,224
Illinois 34,834	Maryland 2,982 **	New York 46,534	Virginia 42 14,794
Indiana 26,672	Massachusetts 13,942	North Carolina 360 40,275	West Virginia 4,017
Iowa 13,001	Michigan 14,753	Ohio 35,475	Wisconsin 12,301

Numbers in blue indicate Union casualties for the entire War Numbers in gray indicate Confederate casualties for the entire War Note: '**' indicates states whose Confederate dead account for the 4,834 Confederate casualties attributed to the 'border states' Casualty figures obtained from Dyer's Compendium

Annapolis National Cemetery

Last updated Wednesday, October 36, 2016