Gangrene or hospital gangrene was one of the deadliest infections at the start of the Civil War.
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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.
Jake Wynn will discuss disease in the first year of the Civil War with historians Kevin Pawlak and Paige Gibbons Backus.
Education Coordinator John Lustrea will disease in the Civil War. Send us your questions in advance on Facebook or by email
Discover the ways in which Civil War Americans thought disease traveled by smells and how they worked to stop its spread with good odors.
LeRoy Wiley Gresham left a vivid first hand account of life on the home front in Georgia during the Civil War, and how doctors treated his weakening body.
Find out how a poor diet contributed to one of the most deadly diseases of the Civil War – diarrhea.
