tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273850360399972991.post1399172351283393346..comments2023-09-19T04:22:04.753-07:00Comments on (Mis)Adventures Of A Genealogist: Tombstone Tuesday-Hugh L. LuttrellCinamon Collinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15891771001373514029noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2273850360399972991.post-87145375623789946182011-07-09T13:34:15.476-07:002011-07-09T13:34:15.476-07:00Disease and not "lead poisoning" appears...Disease and not "lead poisoning" appears to have been the greater danger to soldiers during the Civil War. My own ggf, who lied about his age to enlist at 16 (along with his 15-yr-old brother), contracted dysentery before he ever saw battle. Spent most of a year in a field hospital and for the rest of his life suffered from, and was regularly incapacitated by, chronic diarrhea. That he managed to successfully farm 160 acres in spite of it and lived to the ripe old age of 83 is a measure of his fortitude and determination.JamaGeniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16973656461323918279noreply@blogger.com