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Showing posts with label Dysentery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dysentery. Show all posts
Friday, December 6, 2024

Diary of Corporal John Worrell Northrop: Saturday, June 12, 1864

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Four days I have been ill. Among new men bloody flux and dysentery prevail; this is my trouble. I am better today; a fine breeze lifts me. F...
Friday, September 6, 2024

Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel John Beatty: July 31, 1861

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The Fifteenth Indiana, Colonel Wagner, moved up the valley eight miles. The sickly months are now on us. Considerable dysentery among the ...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, August 30, 1861

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It is now between two and three months since our regiment went into camp. We have had nearly three hundred cases of measles, with about as m...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Dr. Seth Rogers to his daughter Dolly, March 18, 1863

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March 18. This morning a message came in by flag of truce from Camp Finnegan, giving us 24 hours to send out the women and children to the...
Saturday, April 7, 2018

Diary of 2nd Lieutenant Luman Harris Tenney: June 20, 1864

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Moved camp into the woods to the left of the old camp in the open field. Major Nettleton attacked with dysentery. Letter last night from Ge...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Captain William Thompson Lusk to Elizabeth Adams Lusk, October 19, 1862

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79th Regiment, Camp Israel,                        Pleasant Valley,         Oct. 19th, 1862. My dear Mother: It is some little ti...
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett to Harriet Plummer Bartlett, September 11, 1864

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Libby Prison Hospital , September 11, 1864. Dear Mother , — I write this to send by some officer who goes by this flag of truce boat. I...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett to Harriett Plummer Bartlett, August 20, 1864

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Prisoners' Hospital, Danville, Va ., August 20, 1864. My Dear Mother , — I have been very ill with dysentery, consequent on the e...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, December 14, 1862

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CAMP ON WOLF RIVER, NEAR MEMPHIS, Dec. 14, 1862. The papers, I suppose, have told you what we have been about. My regiment was the firs...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

Colonel Thomas Kilby Smith to Elizabeth Budd Smith, June 29, 1862

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HEADQUARTERS 54TH REGT. O. V. INF., CAMP NEAR MOSCOW, TENN., Sunday, June 29,1862. My last letter to you was dated from Lagrange yest...