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Well, from the FWIW perspective department, we also lost over 50,000 Americans over a 3 day period of fighting during the Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War. I think (if I recall correctly) that we also lost about 20,000 in one single day of fighting at the Battle of Antietam (in maryland).
Since I'm on the subject, I might google up what our losses were during the Battle of the Bulge, the D-day Campaign as well as the Iwa Jima Campaign. The nearly 2,000 KIA's that we have suffered in iraq are truely tragic and unfortunate but, compared to others wars and even some individual battles that we have fought in, 2,000 KIA's is barely a drop in the bucket. There were probably over 2,000 KIA's during Picketts Charge all by itself. We lost a little bit over 3,000 people in just one day on 9/11 and the vast vast majority of those were just civilians who were trying to simply work for a living.
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Total casualties for 3 days at Gettysburg were around 50,000 killed, wounded, and missing with total deaths between 7500-8000.
Total casualties for
1 day at the Battle of Antietam were around at 22,000+ killed, wounded, and missing with total deaths around 3600.
At Cold Harbor Union forces took up to 7,000 total casualties, a little less that 50% of the 13,000 attacking force
in less that 2 hours with maybe 1800 dead.
There were 9 battles in the American Civil War that had over 20,000 total casualties.
In a little over 1 month the Marines at Iwo Jima took Marines about 25,000 total casualties with about 7,000 dead.