The author of Beowulf is a mystery, as most poets of the Anglo-Saxon period are. He might have been a court poet, or a monastic poet. Depending on the Christian interpretation of the poem, it could be either.he author of Beowulf is a mystery, as most poets of the Anglo-Saxon period are. He might have been a court poet, or a monastic poet. Depending on the Christian interpretation of the poem, it could be either.
1 An exact count of soldiers who died in combat and from disease during the Civil War is impossible, historians say. 2  Prof Hacker estimates between 650,000 - 850,000 deaths, but believes the most likely number was about 750,000.
In 1900, Livermore set out to make a more complete count. In his book, â Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in America, 1861-65 ,â he reasoned that if the Confederates had lost proportionally the same number of soldiers to disease as the Union had, the actual number of Confederate dead should rise to 258,000.