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America’s Civil War: September 1999 From the EditorArchives | 0 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post Faced with the many diseases that lurked in the camps ready to pounce at the first sign of weakness, it is likely that soldiers on both sides of the fighting would have agreed wholeheartedly with one Reb who wrote home, “The big Battles is not as Bad as the fever.” You could sometimes take cover when the bullets were flying, but you could never hide from the invisible killers swarming in the air you breathed or the water you drank. Germs, not bullets, were the soldiers’ deadliest foes. And Civil War doctors, well-meaning but ignorant, were a close and tragic second. Roy Morris, Jr., Editor, America’s Civil War Subscribe Today
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