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Title: Johnny Reb and Billy Yank
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hunter, Alexander, 1843-
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Publisher: New York, Washington, The Neale Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e was absolutely no ventilation; and every pair of lungsbreathed over and over vitiated air that became with each ex-halation only more poisonous. One sick man not caring to com-plain at the first symptom of approaching illness, would remainin his tent and infect half a dozen more; then it would be dis-covered how very ill they were, and the doctors would forwardthem to Richmond. Only two from Company A were sent away for this cause; butneither returned—the fever was fatal to them both. The truthis, the Seventeenth, in the person of Dr. Lewis, was blessed withthe finest surgeon, the most skilful physician, the truest friend,the most compassionate man in the army, and the good he did,the lives he saved, and the misery he averted can never be toldin this world; it would take other than an earthly pen to writewhat the recording Peri has entered upon her tablets. It was a strange fact, and one that furnished subject for muchconversation at the time, that the largest, stoutest and appar-
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A BREATHING SPElvIv 163 ently the most healthy were the first to be suddenly attacked;the big, strong, bearded men were the ones to lie tossing and moan-ing with fever in the tents, while the delicate—those who seemedas if they could stand no fatigue and would be the first to suc-cumb—were the fortunate ones who escaped. The dread fever, so fatal in many cases, did not confine itself tothe camp, but spread its devastating infection in the countryround about. Women and children fell victims to all its longdays and nights of tossing wretchedness, and helped to swell atlast, and but too often, the fearful list of mortality. The medical staff of the army learned by actual experiencethe unhealthiness of tents; and whether through poverty or de-sign, they were no longer issued to the troops, who ever after-wards tabernacled in the woods in summer and built log huts inwinter. The soldier does not need them, except indeed the little sheltertents that button together, and when spread, open

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