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Mosquito soldiers : malaria, yellow fever, and the course of the American Civil War / Andrew McIlwaine Bell.
- Title
- Mosquito soldiers : malaria, yellow fever, and the course of the American Civil War / Andrew McIlwaine Bell.
- Author
- Bell, Andrew McIlwaine, 1970-
- Publication
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2010.
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- Description
- xiv, 192 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies--malaria and yellow fever--on the major political and military events of the 1860s, revealing how deadly microorganisms carried by a tiny insect helped shape the course of the Civil War.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Subject
- American Civil War
- Culicidae
- Insect Vectors
- Malaria
- Malaria > United States > History > 19th century
- Military Personnel
- Mosquitoes as carriers of disease > United States > History > 19th century
- Soldiers > History > Confederate States of America > 19th century
- Soldiers > History > United States > 19th century
- United States
- United States > Health aspects. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- Yellow Fever
- Yellow fever > United States > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Aedes, Anopheles, and the scourges of the South -- The glory of gangrene and "gallinippers" -- Mosquito coasts -- "The land of flowers, magnolias, and chills" -- "The pestilent marshes of the peninsula" -- "The roughest times any set of soldiers ever encountered" -- Biological warfare -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Incidence of mosquito-borne disease, 1861-1865 -- Appendix 2: Common diagnoses among Union troops, 1861-1866 -- Appendix 3: Civil War chronology.
- ISBN
- 9780807135617 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807135615 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2009027446
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library