I'm watching CSPAN Booknotes, 1945 hrs, to Arthur Herman, author of "Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II" (5/8/2012), which

"Assesses the pivotal role of American big business in building weapons and enabling industrial dominance for Allied forces in World War II, tracing the contributions of Danish immigrant William Knudsen and shipbuilding industrialist Henry Kaiser."

He just made the amazing statistic that industrial deaths in the 1942 war time industry, exceeded by a factor of 20-1 those military deaths for the year.

Now, that's quite a revelation, I'd never heard before. I do not believe consideration of this side of the story has ever been considered nor even touched on re the Civil War.