Just Say No to Abuse Declaring War on Terrorism. The Civil War had up to 3 million soldiers participate in the conflict. What many folks don't know, and regrettably what we don't tell our children in order to make this history a little more meaningful, is that many of the War's soldiers were children. The above figures are attributed to the Northern armies.
Confederate numbers are a little less.
Most of the youths were musicians-drummers and fifers and some buglers. Some did actually engage in combat, and many died for a country that they lived in for less than two decades. Used under License.