Two-thirds of Union soldiers who died in the Civil War were not killed by Confederate bullets. They died in camp. In mud-soaked encampments outside Washington, in overcrowded winter quarters in Virginia, and in makeshift hospitals where medical supplies sat stranded on rail sidings, disease became the Union Army's deadliest enemy. Dysentery. Typhoid. Measles. Pneumonia. Camp fever. The Camps of Rot is a forensic reconstruction of how sanitation failures, political patronage, bureaucratic delay, and logistical collapse turned Union field camps into engines of infection. Drawing from soldier letters, surgeon reports, congressional hearings, and U.S. Sanitary Commission investigations, this book separates battlefield myth from epidemiological record. This is not a story of inevitable tragedy. It is a documented case study in preventable systemic failure. For readers of investigative military history and serious Civil War scholarship, The Camps of Rot reexamines what truly killed the Union Army-and why the quieter war under canvas has been largely forgotten.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Two-thirds of Union soldiers who died in the Civil War were not killed by Confederate bullets.They died in camp.In mud-soaked encampments outside Washington, in overcrowded winter quarters in Virginia, and in makeshift hospitals where medical supplies sat stranded on rail sidings, disease became the Union Army's deadliest enemy. Dysentery. Typhoid. Measles. Pneumonia. Camp fever.The Camps of Rot is a forensic reconstruction of how sanitation failures, political patronage, bureaucratic delay, and logistical collapse turned Union field camps into engines of infection. Drawing from soldier letters, surgeon reports, congressional hearings, and U.S. Sanitary Commission investigations, this book separates battlefield myth from epidemiological record.This is not a story of inevitable tragedy.It is a documented case study in preventable systemic failure.For readers of investigative military history and serious Civil War scholarship, The Camps of Rot reexamines what truly killed the Union Army-and why the quieter war under canvas has been largely forgotten. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798232879440
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