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Diseases, due mostly to poor sanitary conditions, were the cause of more than two-thirds of the deaths in the American Civil War. Some of these diseases include diphtheria, measles, mumps, chicken pox, small pox, influenza, pneumonia, dysentery, cholera, typhoid, malaria and tuberculosis.
The worst out of the bunch was by far dysentery. This one disease accounted for around 45,000 deaths in the Union army and around 50,000 deaths in the Confederate army.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoYes, most of the deaths in the civil war were caused by diseases. Of the 620,000 deaths in the American Civil War, only about 205,000 deaths were the result of battlefield wounds. Most of the rest were from diseases. Dysentery alone killed more than 90,000 soldiers.
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∙ 13y agoDisease.
Medical services and supplies were virtually nil.
If you were wounded, you would probably die - maybe months later in a makeshift hospital that had no way of disinfecting wounds.
About two thirds of the deaths were due to disease.
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∙ 15y agoyes, indeed- far more died of infections that directly from wounds.
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