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Disease returns

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Dick Stanley

The weather improved in Fredericksburg in late March, 1863, but camp diseases that had earlier plagued the army returned. They’d never really quit, but now they were more widespread. “The scarlet fever has broken out amongst the troops,” Spartan Band … Continue reading →

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The “sick regiment” continues ill

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Dick Stanley

The Leesburg assignment was supposed to help the 13th recover from its outbreaks of measles, pneumonia and typhoid fever. Instead, the crowding of men unused to crowding and with low immunity meant the outbreaks of contagious disease continued as August … Continue reading →

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