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The people who were lost in the south numbered around 290,000. However, it is the north that lost all those soldiers. They lost over 365,000.
<em />It was a watershed event because it showed that the local culture and local people were done with being treated in a bad manner and that they will not allow for their culture to end. Their culture started getting incorporated in mainstream culture afterwards and this can be seen up to this day.<em>
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Newspapers. I'm not sure of the name of the Chicago newspaper at the time.