What percentage of Southern men were killed during the Civil War?

by lordshield900

Basically the title.

I've read somewhere, maybe it was from This Republic of Suffering, that nearly 40 percent were killed.

Does anybody know the real number?

Rittermeister

About 11%. The Confederacy had a pre-war population of just over 9,000,000, of which about 3,500,000 were slaves and another 132,000 were free people of color. Out of 5,500,000 white people, about half - or 2,750,000 - were male. Of those, at least 290,000 - probably a bit more - died in Confederate service. If you further break it down based on military age (17-55 by the end of the war) and fitness for service, it's probably closer to 25%.