Learn the details about the “Oldest Profession” during the Civil War.
Disease
African Americans were used to further the practice of vaccination during the Civil War
Gangrene or hospital gangrene was one of the deadliest infections at the start of the Civil War.
Cholera was a deadly disease and New York City was prepared to fight it because of the Civil War
The letters of Joseph Welsh, a dying Civil War soldier, illustrate the cost of disease in the ranks. Welch died of typhoid fever.
From hospitalizations to forcing armies to abandon positions Typhoid Fever was a force to be reckoned with.
Read the story of the 16th New Hampshire, a unit ravaged by disease but almost no battlefield deaths and how they remembered their service.
