NEWSPAPER EXERCISE:

Disease or Illness Treatment Source of information (newspaper name and date)
     
     
     
     
     

 

CENSUS EXERCISE:

Name of soldier Wound or disease suffered How illness or wound developed or healed Regiment Length of service
         
         

SOLDIERS' DOSSIERS EXERCISE:

  Died from Wounds Died from Diseases

Augusta County

    
Franklin County    
Augusta County    
Franklin County    

Do these numbers surprise you? Why or why not?

 

If we had a war tomorrow, do you think the numbers would be similarly divided between deaths from wounds and deaths from diseases? Why or why not?