Civil War Battlefield Guide data: forces

name:kennedy1997_forces
path:kennedy1997_forces.csv
format:csv

Kennedy (1997) casualty data

Force level data on casualties from Frances H. Kennedy (1997) The Civil War Battlefield Guide . See Civil War Battlefield Guide data: battles for more information.

Sources: [KennedyConservation1998]

Schema

Primary Key:[‘battle_id’, ‘belligerent’]
battle_id string Battle
belligerent string belligerent
casualties_min integer Casualties (min)
casualties_max integer Casualties (max)
killed_wounded_min integer Killed or Wounded (min)
killed_wounded_max integer Killed or Wounded (max)
missing integer Missing or captured

battle_id

title:

Battle
type:

string
format:

default
constraints:
minLength:5
maxLength:6
pattern:[A-Z]{2}[0-9]{3}[A-Z]?( [A-Z]{2}[0-9]{3}[A-Z]?)*

Battle identifier These are almost the same as the Kennedy identifiers with a few exceptions. See the field cwsac_id for the CWSAC identifier. In a few battles the casualties include several battles. In these cases the identifiers are space separated.

belligerent

title:

belligerent
type:

string
format:

default
constraints:
enum:[‘US’, ‘Confederate’, ‘Native American’]

casualties_min

title:

Casualties (min)
type:

integer
format:

default
constraints:
minimum:0

Casualties (killed, wounded, and missing or captured), minimum value. This source only gives a range for a few battles. For battles where no range is given, the mimimum and maximum are set to the same value.

casualties_max

title:

Casualties (max)
type:

integer
format:

default
constraints:
minimum:0

Casualties (killed, wounded, and missing or captured), maximum value.

killed_wounded_min

title:

Killed or Wounded (min)
type:

integer
format:

default
constraints:
minimum:0

This source only gives a range for a few battles. For battles where no range is given, the mimimum and maximum are set to the same value.

killed_wounded_max

title:

Killed or Wounded (max)
type:

integer
format:

default
constraints:
minimum:0

missing

title:

Missing or captured
type:

integer
format:

default
constraints:
minimum:0