Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War
by
Andrew McIlwaine Bell
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. And of the various maladies that plagued both armies, few were more pervasive than malaria -- a mosquito-borne illness that afflicted over 1.1...