Sixteen of my sick
have so far recovered that I sent them to-day to join their regiment at Kalorama
Heights, near Washington. I have quite recovered from my attack, which was
rubeolous fever. I had been so much mixed up with measles that, notwithstanding
I had passed through the disease in childhood, the system in some degree
yielded to its contagious influence, and I have had all the symptoms of
measles, except the eruption. I have termed this rubeoloid, or rubeolous fever.
It is common in camp.
SOURCE: Alfred L.
Castleman, The Army of the Potomac.
Behind the Scenes. A Diary of Unwritten History; From the Organization of the
Army, by General George B. McClellan, to the close of the Campaign in Virginia
about the First Day January, 1863, p. 13
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