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Cholera was a deadly disease and New York City was prepared to fight it because of the Civil War
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The letters of Joseph Welsh, a dying Civil War soldier, illustrate the cost of disease in the ranks. Welch died of typhoid fever.
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From hospitalizations to forcing armies to abandon positions Typhoid Fever was a force to be reckoned with.
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Read the story of the 16th New Hampshire, a unit ravaged by disease but almost no battlefield deaths and how they remembered their service.
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