Max Yankee bullets, as vile as they were, would not get to women and children like yellow fever, cholera and typhus. The big picture= 1850-51 North America: Influenza 1851 Coles Co., Illinois cholera 1851 The Great Plains - cholera 1851 Missouri - cholera 1852 Nationwide: Yellow Fever (New Orleans: 8,000 die in summer) 1853 New Orleans: yellow fever killed 7,790. 1855 Nationwide (many parts): Yellow Fever 1857-59 Worldwide: Influenza (one of disease's greatest epidemics) 1860-61 Pennsylvania: Smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, & Washington D.C.: a series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever 1867 New Orleans: 3,093 perished from yellow fever. 1873-75 North America & Europe: Influenza 1878 New Orleans: Yellow Fever (last great epidemic of disease) 1878 Southern states: over 13,000 people died from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Yates" <xamilil@wfeca.net> To: <PATE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 10:45 PM Subject: [PATE] Deaths in 1864 FL. > Hello All, > > Just curious if anyone has knowledge of cause of deaths (half of family) in N.W. FL. abt Summer of 1864, not including yankee bullets. > Were there any known break-outs of cholera, or such as that? > > Thanks, > Max > >