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Canadians in the Civil War - Claire Hoy ISBN: 1-55278-450-9 Price: $34.95 Pages: 320 Canadians in the Civil War Description: The American Civil War not only subsumed Canadians at every level, it directly determined the shape of Canadian confederation. The U.S. Civil War was America's bloodiest war, involving three million fighters, some 600,000 of whom died. Most Canadians know something about its' American impact, but few realize that it also stands as a defining event in Canadian history. Thousands of Canadians fought in the war — about 5,000 died — and twice during that period this country, along with Great Britain, came within a whisker of all-out war against Washington.