Editing Seminole Wars (section)

===Aftermath===
The Second Seminole War may have cost as much as $40,000,000. More than 40,000 regular U.S. military, militiamen and volunteers served in the war. This Indian war cost the lives of 1,500 soldiers, mostly from disease. It is estimated that more than 300 regular U.S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps personnel were killed in action, along with 55 volunteers.<ref>Kohn, George Childs: ''Dictionary of Wars: Third Edition'' (p. 486)</ref> There is no record of the number of Seminole killed in action, but many homes and Indian lives were lost. A great many Seminole died of disease or starvation in Florida, on the journey west, and after they reached [[Indian Territory]]. An unknown but apparently substantial number of white civilians were killed by Seminole during the war.<ref>Mahon. pp. 321, 323, 325.<br />Missall. pp. 177, 204–205.<br />Florida Board of State Institutions. P. 9.</ref>Seminole skulls gathered during the war were studied by phrenologists and used to make the false claim that the Seminole people were inherently violent which created an ideological justification for the conflict and removal of  Seminole people across Florida.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Strang |first=Cameron B. |date=2018 |title=Perpetual War and Natural Knowledge in the United States, 1775–1860 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/90024942?seq=20 |journal=Journal of the Early Republic |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=387–413 |issn=0275-1275}}</ref>