Mrs. Stafstrom
U.S history -3rd hour
Oct.16,2015
word count:420 Disease during the Civil War
During the Civil war hospital, condition weren’t the best due to the lack of clean practices and the lack of modern instruments. And some treatments for diseases were highly dangerous to people’s health. All this plus the wounds that soldiers received during battle caused approximately 620,000 soldiers deaths during the war. of these 620,000 2/3ths of the deaths were due to disease not wounds during battle. The top two killer diseases during the civil war were Dysentery and Typhoid fever. During the Civil war, more soldiers died of disease rather than wounds in battle. According to an article written Civil War Casualties