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Public and Private Voices: The Typhoid Fever Experience at Camp Thomas, 1898.

Pierce, Gerald Joseph
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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.

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2007-11-20
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Walter Reed, Chickamauga, Camp Thomas, Tyhpoid Fever, U.S. Volunteers, Spanish-American War Disease
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Pierce, Gerald Joseph. "Public and Private Voices: The Typhoid Fever Experience at Camp Thomas, 1898.." 2007. Dissertation, Georgia State University. https://doi.org/10.57709/1059649
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2012-01-26
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