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From: "Chris Wyly" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] Why the Yankees Died at Andersonville
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:34:23 -0500
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Rhonda, no apology needed, not off topic and an interesting article. By the
way speaking of disease killing Civil War Soldiers.....
My ggg/grandfather Elbert A. Grisham (Grissom) who I just discovered served
in the CSA -4th Missouri Infantry is thought to have died of all things
measles. That is just a family story passed down, I have yet to document
whether or not he died from battle wounds or in fact the measles. However,
I was struck by the possibility of such a harmless sounding disease being
the death of a grown man. Medicine has come a long way since 1862.
Chris


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