Mosquito Soldiers

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Mosquito Soldiers is written by Andrew McIlwaine Bell and published by LSU Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807137375 (ISBN 10) and 9780807137376 (ISBN 13).

Of the 620,000 soldiers who perished during the American Civil War, the overwhelming majority died not from gunshot wounds or saber cuts, but from disease. In this ground-breaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies---malaria and yellow fever---on the major political and military events of the 1860s, revealing how deadly microorganisms carried by a tiny insect helped shape the course of the Civil War.