Military Statistics

America's Wars:

American Revolution, 1775 to 1784 Participants Deaths in Service Living Veterans 290,000 4,000 0 Last Veteran: Daniel F. Bakeman, died 4/5/1869, age 109 War of 1812, 1812 to 1815 Participants Deaths in Service Living Veterans 287,000 2,000 0 Last Veteran: Hiram Cronk, died 5/13/05, age 105 Indian Wars, approx. 1817 to 1898 Participants Deaths in Service Living Veterans 106,000 1,000 0 Last Veteran: Fredrak Fraske, died 6/18/73, age 101 Mexican War, 1846 to 1848 Participants Deaths in Service Living Veterans 79,000 13,000 0 Last Veteran: Owen Thomas Edgar, died 9/3/29, age 98 Civil War, 1861 to 1865 Union Participants Union Deaths in Service Union Living Veterans 2,213,000 364,000 0 Confederate Participants* Confederate Deaths in Service* Confederate Living Veterans 1,000,000 133,821 0 Last Union Veteran: Albert Woolson, died 8/2/56, age 109 Last Confederate Veteran: Disputed but listed as John Salling * Authoritative statistics for Confederate Forces are not available. An estimated 28,000 Confederate soldiers died in Union prisons. Spanish-American War, 1898 to 1902 Participants Deaths in Service Living Veterans 392,000 11,000 0 Last Veteran: Nathan E. Cook, died 9/10/92, age 106 World War I, 1917 to 1918 Participants Deaths in Service Living Veterans 4,744,000 116,000 Fewer than 25 Living Veterans does not include World War I veterans with military service in other eras. World War II, 1940 to 1947 Participants Deaths in Service Living Veterans 16,535,000 406,000 3,242,000 Korean Conflict, 1950 to 1955 Participants Deaths in Service Living Veterans 6,807,000 55,000 3,086,400 Vietnam Era, 1964 to 1975 Participants Deaths in Service Living Veterans 9,200,000 109,000 7,286,500 Gulf War Era, 1990 to 8/2001 Participants Deaths in Service Living Veterans 3,800,000 9,000 1,852,000 War on Terror, 9/2001 to TBD Participants (as of 9/2009) Deaths in Service (as of 3/2010) 1,471,008 5,376 America's Wars Total Participants Deaths in Service Living Veterans Living Ex-Servicemembers 41,891,368 1,190,109 23,442,000 17,456,000 Sources: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (July 1998),American Community Survey (2008) and InfoPlease Note: Figures on the number of living veterans reflect final 1990 Census data and include only veterans living in the United States. Details may not add to total due to rounding.