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200,000 recruits were physically unfit and discharged either because they were ill or they suffered from other maladies, but still many slipped through the cracks and enlisted while very ill. Approximately three out of every five soldiers died of disease especially during the first year of the Civil War. Approximately half the deaths of soldiers were tuberculosis; pneumonia; diarrhea, whooping cough; chickenpox; intestinal disorders; mumps and measles. Because of the unhygienic shape of the Federal camps (rotten food and garbage of all types) bacteria and viruses spread throughout the camps and bowel disorders were common. Well over three quarters of the soldiers would contract chronic diarrhea or dysentery. Typhoid was treated with quinine and reduced fatalities, but malaria struck one quarter of the soldiers. Exposure to the elements, especially becoming damp and cold; pneumonia was the third leading cause of death.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 14y agoUnion had a whole lot more fever deaths because of their weather up north Union deaths: 3,567 Confederate deaths: 622
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∙ 10y ago67763 men in the civil war got the disease. However,only 4246 men died from it.6.27 percent died from measles.
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∙ 11y agoSearch it up
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∙ 14y agoAbout 123,452
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∙ 11y agoAbout 14,000
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About 700,000 (apex)
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∙ 16y ago17%
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∙ 16y ago13,000
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How many people died from malaria during the civil war?
It is estimated that 11,000 people died from measles during the Civil War. Dysentery was the worse disease to kill soldiers, it is estimated almost 100,000 died from it.
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Over 258,000 Confederates, and 359,000 union troops died in the war. Most died from diseases like measles and dysentary.
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1/3
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620,000
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If they weren't killed by soldiers on the opposite side, they were most often killed by their wounds getting infected. Also, many died of dysentary and measles.
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Only 150 people died of salmonella during the civil war
How many people died on the confederate side of the civil war?
4,000 people died on the cofederate side
