The worst wars to be a US soldier in

I mean Civil War and it’s not a question. Especially between those listed

Eta: They were starving, huge percentage dying from disease, and if shot in extremity, no matter what, cut off

Anything pre-modern medicine and antibiotics.

Vietnam had one of the highest survivability rates of any war with medivac choppers ferrying wounded soldiers to surgical units. Civil war the worst by a long shot as any wound could lead to infection or amputation and battlefield surgery was horrendous

Revolutionary war was no picnic.

Greater numbers lost their lives in non combat situations in the Civil War.

WW1 because of trench warfare.

Viet Nam was unpopular in the later stages. There is a dividing line between popular and unpopular.

All wars...all are the worst to be a US soldier.

Wound treatment for the civil war was absolutely brutal.

That’s a big pass from me, dog.

Get shot in nam, at least you have good drugs and antibiotics.

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If you're in the thick of it it's the worst war ever. However, it's highly situational. I read a short memoir of a guy who was Navy blimp pilot in WWII. By day he tooled around in the sky at 35 mph looking for nonexistent U Boats. By night he slayed poon in the Miami nightclubs.

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The Forrest Gump effect. Some people are just born to live charmed lives.

Any war before the advent of "modern medicine".

Battlefield treatment and removal of the wounded (ambulances) had greatly improved by the time WWI started.

Visit the Civil War Medical Museum in Frederick, MD. The medical treatment was absolutely barbaric. In many cases men had arms and legs amputated without anesthesia.

National Museum of Civil War Medicine

A Civil War medical kit.

I'd pick the Civil War and World War 1. Disease during the Civil War and soft lead projectiles with low muzzle velocity made for some horrendous wounds that resulted in death or amputation. There were no modern medevac and surgical facilities like they had in Vietnam, which would have mitigated much of the suffering that occurred during the CW. There was also a very unpopular draft of Union soldiers during the Civil War that resulted in violent riots in New York City.

World War 1 wasn't much better than the Civil War in some respects. You had outdated tactics that were similar to those of the Civil War, but deadly accurate artillery, machine guns, other advanced, modern, weapons, and poisonous gas inflicting gruesome casualties. Not to mention being chewed to pieces while entangled in barbed wire. Wet, rat-infested, trenches (not unlike what was seen in the latter stages of the Civil War) would not have been any fun, either.