<span>Casualties
at Gettysburg totaled 23,049 for the Union (3,155 dead, 14,529
wounded, 5,365 missing).
Confederate casualties were 28,063 (3,903
dead, 18,735 injured, and 5,425 missing), more than a third of General Robert E. Lee’s
army.
According to these numbers, the total of all losses on both sides was 51,112.
That number is roughly <em>6-2/3 times the total population</em> of the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, TODAY ... in 2015 ! Does that help you imagine the insanity of what took place here, seven score and 12 years ago ?
The author who proposed the theory of "natural selection," which other people called "survival of the fittest" was named Charles Darwin. These two ideas are the founding basis of the theory of evolution.
