Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War (Andrew McILwaine Bell- MD) Material:Hardcover the invasion that altered the

the invasion that altered the flow of the war

A retired professor from Hagerstown Community College

Along the Mississippi River and other inland waterways across the South

to be composed of men of color

17 maps by Gettysburg cartographer Phil Laino

Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War (Andrew McILwaine Bell- MD) Material:Hardcover the invasion that altered theMosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War by Andrew McIlwaine Bell 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. And of the various maladies that plagued both armies, few were more pervasive than malaria a mosquito borne illness that afflicted over 1. 1 million soldiers serving in the Union army alone.