Rethinking the Revolution

1. 620,000 soldiers died in the American Civil war
2. The Revolutionary War was America's longest war, lasting a total of 8 years.
3. Long before 1826, every one of the original 13 Continental army generals appointed by congress in 1775 had died, and not long after there was no one from the revolutionary generation left alive.
4. Civil war soldiers had stronger cannons and rifles with more range than the muskets George Washington's Continental Army soldiers were equipped with.
5. Civilians suffered heavily from the War of independence, constantly dying of diseases spread from soldiers from both sides.