Swindles, Swindells and the American Civil War

There is a database, the  Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System which contains information about the men who served in the Union and Confederate Armies during the Civil War.

The battle of Chickamauga

I have extracted the list of Swindle, Swindell etc in the database and listed them on the page  American Civil War.

A summary breakdown by name is;-

		Duplicates discounted	All Entries
Confederacy	All	194	264
Confederacy	Swindle	116	152
Confederacy	Swindell	35	49
Confederacy	Swindall	5	8
Confederacy	Swindles	0	0
Confederacy	Swindel	4	5
Confederacy	Swindells	6	7
Confederacy	Swindler	12	14
Confederacy	Swindlers	0	0
Union	All	96	154
Union	Swindle	20	36
Union	Swindell	14	22
Union	Swindall	0	0
Union	Swindles	3	9
Union	Swindel	3	5
Union	Swindells	12	16
Union	Swindler	31	38
Union	Swindlers	0	0

It will be seen that there are twice as many 'Swindle' (etc) fighting for the Confederacy as for the Union - or five times as many if the 'Swindlers' are excluded.

There were about 250 Swindle s fighting in the war. Considering that the death rate was around 25% it suggests that around 60 died in the war. For many there is no record of their death except their disappearance from the census.

In the First World War the death rate among the UK forces was around 12%.

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