The American Civil War and the British press, Alfred Grant, McFarland, 2000, ISBN 978-0-7864-0630-2, ... the wish of the South for low duties and unfettered trade. Of course we are anxious that the prosperity of the States which produce so much raw material and need so many manufactured goods should suffer no interruption or reverse ...
Recounting the dead, Associate Professor J. David Hacker, "estimates, based on Census data, indicate that the [military] death toll was approximately 750,000, and may have been as high as 850,000"
Professor James Downs. "Color blindness in the demographic death toll of the Civil War". University of Connecticut, April 13, 2012. "The rough 19th century estimate was that 60,000 former slaves died from the epidemic, but doctors treating black patients often claimed that they were unable to keep accurate records due to demands on their time and the lack of manpower and resources. The surviving records only include the number of black patients whom doctors encountered; tens of thousands of other slaves who died had no contact with army doctors, leaving no records of their deaths." 60,000 documented plus 'tens of thousands' undocumented gives a minimum of 80,000 slave deaths.
