civil+war+essay+tp09

I belive that during the civil war, disease was more deadly than bullets. Diseases like diahrrea/dysentery, typhiod, and malaria had the potential to wipe out entire camps of soldiers, and with the unsanitary conditions that most camps had, it happened often.

Sickness plagued both sides greatly during the war. Malaria clamed the lives of 10,063 in total, typhoid with 34,833, and the most fatal sickness, diahrrea/dysentery, with 44,558. But the fact that makes me belive in my thesis so much is that 2/3 of deaths in the civil war were from diseases, not from bullets.

Back in the civil war times no one cared much about hygeine. The soldiers did not think twice about placing their latriens near the water supply, or drinking from the same water a sick man just bathed in. And with sickness like dysentery/diahrrea were mostly transmitted becasuse of comtaminated water. This is why the number of troops that got sick during the war is so jaw dropping. They had no idea that hygiene had anything to do with a persons health