Not all soldiers die gloriously in battle. In fact, two-thirds of Civil War soldiers died of what cause?

You may have thought most Civil War casualties were on the battlefield, but you'd be wrong. Disease took the lives of two-thirds of all who perished, due to its contagious spread amongst close-quarter camps. Mumps, measles, chickenpox, and malaria took out more soldiers than any shot fired.

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