The Deadliest War — Americans Killing Americans | Gauge #America250

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]620,000 dead. Let that number sit for a second.

[00:00:04]More Americans died in the Civil War than in World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam combined. And every single death was an American killing an American. Brothers, cousins, neighbors pointing rifles at each other across a cornfield.

[00:00:20]2% of the American population died. In today's numbers, that would be over 6 million people. Entire towns lost every young man they had.

[00:00:29]Some families lost every son.

[00:00:32]And it happened because one half of the country wanted to keep human beings as property, and the other half finally said no.

[00:00:39]That's the cost of waiting too long to do what's right.

[00:00:42]I'm Cole Braddock. Call me Gage. Let's remember together, always.