Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War (Andrew McILwaine Bell- MD) kids and a deep familiarity with

and a deep familiarity with the terrain in and around Winchester and the lower Shenandoah Valley

the war with Mexico

To those who are familiar only with the various “retouched” versions of Lincoln’s life

100+ monument and landscape photographs

the Second Inaugural Address and the assassination

Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War (Andrew McILwaine Bell- MD) kids and a deep familiarity withMosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War by Andrew McIlwaine Bell Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. And of the various maladies that plagued both armies, few were more pervasive than malaria a mosquito borne illness that afflicted over 1. 1 million soldiers serving in the Union army alone.