This could be a topic for a specific illness, specific town in Tennessee, or even should someone who contracted a disease in the war be counted among CW casualties?
Found this in a family history:
“Augustus Hall
…he was a farmer and enlisted as a private in the 106th Ill. Vol. Inf. He was a member of Co. K along with some of his other Hall kin. He was 24 at enlistment.
His pension application made in 1880 is an excellent record of the exposure experienced by men in the Civil War that led to ill health in their post-war years. Augustus, ill with measles while on detached duty at Rutherford Station, Tenn. (1863) was subjected to over two days of soaking rain without shelter and was shuttled by box car to their permanent camp and given casual medical treatment. He suffered from a chronic lung ailment the remainder of his life. “
The Hall-Overstreet Family 1725 – 1981, Carrol Carman Hall, Public Library, Petersburg Il.
Found this in a family history:
“Augustus Hall
…he was a farmer and enlisted as a private in the 106th Ill. Vol. Inf. He was a member of Co. K along with some of his other Hall kin. He was 24 at enlistment.
His pension application made in 1880 is an excellent record of the exposure experienced by men in the Civil War that led to ill health in their post-war years. Augustus, ill with measles while on detached duty at Rutherford Station, Tenn. (1863) was subjected to over two days of soaking rain without shelter and was shuttled by box car to their permanent camp and given casual medical treatment. He suffered from a chronic lung ailment the remainder of his life. “
The Hall-Overstreet Family 1725 – 1981, Carrol Carman Hall, Public Library, Petersburg Il.