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Smallpox
| Date(s) of Letter(s) | Little, Henry F.
W. The Seventh Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion.
Concord, New Hampshire: Seventh New Hampshire Veteran Association, 1896. |
| March 15, 1862 April 25, 1862 |
After week's voyage
of the Tycoon, a case of small-pox was discovered in Company G. Soon after
that, another case appeared. The surgeons on board, however, did not diagnose it as
such. After the barque had landed at Fort Jefferson, the surgeons there made it
known that the disease was small-pox. Between decks, more than four hundred men had
been diagnosed with the desease. ( pp. 36-37) "About March 12, the men were all ordered to be vaccinated as a preventative of small-pox, which was now beginning to show itself, especially among the men who had been exposed on the Tycoon, and a hospital was established over on Bird Key." (pp. 38-39). |