Disease and Pathogens in the Civil WarDisease was the big killer •1 in 4 soldiers who served died...
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Disease and Pathogens in the Civil War
Research Project
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Disease was the big killer• 1 in 4 soldiers who served died
• More than twice as many soldiers died of disease than battle and other causes combined!
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Civil War Army Camps Were Filthy and Without Sanitation
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Disease Deaths Infected
Dysentery/Diarrhea 95,000 1.5 million
Typhoid Fever 45,000 150,000
Pneumonia 40,000 78,000
Malaria 30,000 1.3 million
Measles 10,000 77,000
Tuberculosis 7,000 19,000
Smallpox 7,000 18,000
Typhus 1,000 N/A
Rheumatism (Rheumatic fever) 475 250,000
Gonorrhea and Syphilis 400 200,000
Scurvy N/A 30,700
Mumps, Chickenpox, Diphteria, Other, etc
N/A Unknown thousands
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Death from Wounds
• Many, if not most, of the soldiers who died from the injuries sustained in battle died of infection.
• Without antibiotics or sterile equipment, bacteria would infect injuries resulting in fever and death.
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Gangrene• Gangrene refers to the death of body tissue due to a lack of
blood flow or serious bacterial infection. Gangrene commonly affects the extremities, but it can also occur in your muscles and internal organs.
• Treatments for gangrene include surgery to remove dead tissue and antibiotics. Since antibiotics did not exist yet in the Civil War, that option was not available.
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Dysentery• An infection of the intestines caused by either bacteria
or an amoeba from contaminated water.
• It results in severe diarrhea with the presence of blood and mucus in the feces.
• The worst disease in the Civil War was Dysentery. Dysentery accounted for around 45,000 deaths in the Union army and around 50,000 deaths in the Confederate army.
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Your Assignment For This Project
• Read the three posted articles
• Watch the three videos
• If Biology: produce a report on 6 of the following diseases;
• Typhoid Fever
• Pneunomia
• Malaria• Measles
• Small pox
• Typhus• Tuberculosis
• Gangrene and wound infections
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Your Assignment For This Project
• Read the three posted articles
• Watch the three videos
• If 8th Grade: produce a report on 5 of the following diseases;
• Typhoid Fever
• Pneunomia
• Malaria• Measles
• Small pox
• Typhus• Tuberculosis
• Gangrene and wound infections
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Your Assignment For This Project
• Read the three posted articles
• Watch the three videos
• If 7th Grade: produce a report on 4 of the following diseases;
• Typhoid Fever
• Pneunomia
• Malaria• Measles
• Small pox
• Typhus• Tuberculosis
• Gangrene and wound infections
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Your Assignment For This Project
• Read the three posted articles
• Watch the three videos
• If 6th Grade: produce a report on 3 of the following diseases;
• Typhoid Fever
• Pneunomia
• Malaria• Measles
• Small pox
• Typhus• Tuberculosis
• Gangrene and wound infections
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Your Assignment For This Project
• The report will contain the following:
• Introduction paragraph explaining the overall impacts of disease on Civil War casualties relative the actual battles.
• 1-2 paragraphs on each disease discussing the symptoms and illness, the cause agent and/or carrier, how it spread in the Civil War, the impacts it had on soldiers, treatments available then and which developed after the war.
• 1-2 conclusion paragraphs discussing the impacts disease had on the course of the war and lessons we learned from that experience.