Union Army Recruits in Black Regiments in the United States, 1862-1865

This article uses nineteenth-century evidence to calculate the impact of early exposure to malaria-ridden environments on nutritional status and the immune system in America. I estimate the risk of contracting malarial fevers in the 1850s by using correlations between malaria and environmental factors such as climate and geographical features. The study demonstrates that Union Army recruits who spent their early years in malaria-endemic counties were 1.1 inches shorter at enlistment due to malnutrition and were 13 percent more susceptible to infections during the U.S. Civil War as a result of immune disorders than were those from malaria-free regions.

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THE PREVALENCE OF ANTIBODIES TO PARASITIC DISEASES IS SERA OF YOUNG ARMY RECRUITS FROM THE UNITED STATES AND BRAZIL

American Journal of Epidemiology ◽

10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a120743 ◽

1967 ◽

Vol 86 (2) ◽

pp. 330-340 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

RAUL R. CUADRADO ◽

IRVING G. KAGAN

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Parasitic Diseases ◽

Army Recruits

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Storms Moving in a Ring of Fire

Wired into Nature ◽

10.5622/illinois/9780252041778.003.0003 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

James Schwoch

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Civil War ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Great Plains ◽

The United States ◽

United States Military ◽

Union Army ◽

Signal Corps ◽

The Creation ◽

The Impact

Opening with the impact of the Civil War on telegraphic communications in Washington, this chapter discusses the lack of telegraph security at the onset of the war. Various decisions by Edwin Stanton, Western Union, and telegraph corporations led to the creation of the United States Military Telegraph (USMT) Company, which effectively privatized Union Army telegraph communications and blunted Albert Myer and the Signal Corps. The latter half of the chapter details the increasing conflicts between indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and various militias and Union Army troops, including the Sand Creek Massacre, the Julesburg battles, and the retaliatory actions against the Transcontinental Telegraph and telegraph branch lines by Great Plains warriors in 1865 and 1866.

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Medicines for the Union Army. The United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War, by George Winston Smith, Madison, Wisconsin, American Institute of the History of Pharmacy, 1962, pp. VII+ 119, 8 illus. $2.75.

Medical History ◽

10.1017/s0025727300028581 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 287-288

Author(s):

David L. Cowen

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Civil War ◽

United States Army ◽

The United States ◽

Union Army ◽

American Institute ◽

History Of ◽

History Of Pharmacy

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Every Day’s Delay Weakens the Secessionists and Strengthens the Union

Union Indivisible ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469633787.003.0008 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Michael D. Robinson

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Union Army ◽

Emancipation Proclamation

This chapter covers the last half of 1861 and demonstrates how Unionists within the Border South managed to defeat the secessionists within their midst. This chapter emphasizes the movement away from neutrality in each of the Border South states and the forces that tilted the balance towards Unionism. A major factor contributing to the defeat of secession in the Border South was the increased presence of the Union army. In Maryland, Missouri, and eventually in Kentucky, federal troops were used to keep Border South secessionists in check. This chapter also chronicles how Unionists overcame John C. Frémont’s emancipation proclamation, which he announced in August 1861. By the end of 1861, all of the Border South states had abandoned neutrality and cast their lot with the United States. Internal divisions continued, but the secession movement had been defeated in the Border South.

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