Education Coordinator John Lustrea and Director of Interpretation Jake Wynn will talk about vaccination in the Civil War.
by David Price
Smallpox
Join Dr. Robert Hicks on this live stream as he details the many smallpox epidemics to afflict the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Read about one of the most famous examples of quarantine in the Civil War. The 20th Maine was kept out of Chancellorsville due to smallpox.
After emancipation, what came next? Overcrowded and unsanitary, health conditions in contraband camps made freedpeople increasingly susceptible to smallpox.
