Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the Civil War by Andrew McIlwaine Bell, Louisiana State University Press, 2010, $29.95 “The American Civil War, like every war that preceded it and others that would follow, was a pestilential nightmare,” writes Andrew Bell in his scrupulously researched, energetically written epidemiological survey. “Mosquitoes were a …
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