The Real Killer

The Civil War was the bloodiest, most deadly war Americans have fought in. Over 625,000 men died along the whole timeline.  But All of the soldiers did not die of being shot, on the contrary, most died of disease or infection.  The conditions of the camps, ventilated tents, walking close to one another when one could have the disease.  All of this caused the spread of mumps, chicken poxs, and measles.  About one million of the union soldiers had malaria.  Even thought there was a lot of fighting and shooting and killing going on, the thing that killed most of the soldiers was disease. And when soldiers needed to get a limb amputated infections were deadly because doctors did not have the proper cleaning supplies. Some bullets would be dug out with unclean fingers.