Date of Award
11-20-2007
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
History
First Advisor
Dr. Wendy H. Venet - Chair
Second Advisor
Dr. Stuart Galishoff
Third Advisor
Dr. Charles G. Steffen
Abstract
This dissertation examines the experience of those involved in the typhoid fever outbreak at Camp Thomas, Chickamauga National Military Park, Georgia between April and August 1898. Among American volunteer soliders in the Spanish-American War, those stationed at this camp suffered the highest number of typhoid cases and deaths from typhoid. Treatments of the war have referred to the outbreak and some studies have examined it as part of wider subjects, but none from the standpoint of those involved, commanders, doctors, civilians, officers and enlisted men. The mobilized soldiers represented numerous states and reflected the disease experience of civilian society. The study considers the mobilization process, the disease outbreak and the aftermath.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1059649
Recommended Citation
Pierce, Gerald Joseph, "Public and Private Voices: The Typhoid Fever Experience at Camp Thomas, 1898.." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2007.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1059649