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Children per family
Of the 200 soldiers that have appeared in "Faces of War," Faces of the Civil War and Faces of the Confederacy, 149 became fathers. The total number of sons and daughters they produced is 487, an average of 3.2 per soldier. The primary sources for the number of children fathered by each soldier are U.S. Census records and pension records in the National Archives. Numbers include boys and girls who predeceased their mothers and fathers, and those who outlived one or both of their parents. On a related note, infant mortality rates during this period are quite high compared to today's American standard. Almost every family suffered the early death of a child.
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