Adams, George Worthington

FIGURE 6.2. Incidents of Illness per 1,000 White and BlackTroops, Union Army Source The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1, Medical Volume [Washington GPO, 1888], pp. 6-77 passim. The figure for camp fevers is a compilation of continued, typho-malaria, and malarial fevers. See George Worthington Adams, Doctors in Blue, p. 240). 

This estimate came from Samuel Ramsey, chief clerk for the U.S. Army Medical Department. For details see George Worthington Adams, Doctors in Blue The Medical History of the Union Army in the Civil War (1952 reprint. Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press), p. 178 and Mary Elizabeth Massey, Bonnet Brigades American Women and the Civil War (New York Alfred A. Knopf, 1966), p. 52. 

George Worthington Adams, Doctors in Blue (1952 reprinted. Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press, 1996), p. 240. 

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