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The primary reason so many soldiers died from disease during the American Civil War is the poor sanitation conditions that existed. Medical technology was primitive at best by today's standards.

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Approximately 164,000 Confederate soldiers died from disease and other non-combantant causes. This accounted for about two-thirds of the deaths. The worse disease was by far dysentery, which killed more than 50,000 Confederate troops.

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The primary reason so many soldiers died from disease during the American Civil War is due to poor sanitation conditions.

Until Louis Pasteur discovered the cause of disease, no one had ever heard of the germ theory of disease.

Florence Nightingale, A Battlefield Nurse, had to keep statistics showing the value of cleanliness before commanding officers would take the effort to keep hospitals clean. After the cause of disease was discovered and the value of cleanliness was proven, disease among solders decreased.

Walter Reed reduced it some more when he proved that mosquitoes carried malaria and yellow fever.

Today injury is the main cause of problems with stress a close second.

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total deaths in the union army during the civil war due to disease is 250,152.

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