— 9,682 Eliot, Llewellyn. “Report of…” Annual Report of DC Commissioners, 1895, p. 1293.

Narrative Information

“During the late war between the States there occurred among the United States forces, the following cases of smallpox: White troops, May 1, 1861, to June 30, 1866, 12,236 cases, 4,717 deaths; colored troops, July 1, 1863, to June 30, 1866, 6,716 cases, 2,341 deaths; a total of 18,952 cases with 7,058 deaths. (Med. And Surg. Hist. War Rebellion, Part III, Med. Vol., p. 624.) Among the Confederate prisoners we find 9,830 cases occurred with 2,624 deaths. (Ap. Cit., p. 629.)”

(Eliot, Llewellyn, M.D. “Report of Dr. Llewellyn Eliot, M.D….Vaccination and the Ravages of Smallpox,” in Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the Year Ended June 30, 1895. Washington: Government Printing Office, p. 1293.).

Sources

Eliot, Llewellyn, M.D. “Report of Dr. Llewellyn Eliot, M.D….Vaccination and the Ravages of Smallpox,” in Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the Year Ended June 30, 1895. Washington: Government Printing Office, pp. 1290-1302. Accessed 2-15-2015: https://books.google.com/books?id=ymE3AQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

United States War Department. The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies; Series 1, Vol. 52 (Part 1). Washington: GPO, 1884. Digitized by Google: http://books.google.com/books?id=ILF3AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[1] There is overlap with our 1863 entry (1,078 deaths) which includes Fort Delaware, Camp Chase, MD, and VA.

1861 — May 1-June 30, 1866, Smallpox, Union soldiers/Confederate prisoners[1] –9,682