Existing comment:
Camp Fevers:
Disease caused more deaths than wounds from battle, not only in the summer of 1776, but throughout the war. Undernourished and exhausted soldiers often suffered from scurvy and dysentery. Massed together "as thick as hasty pudding," they were also vulnerable to quickly spreading contagious diseases, such as diphtheria, typhus, mumps, measles, and smallpox. |