Mosquito soldiers : malaria, yellow fever, and the course of the American Civil War / Andrew McIlwaine Bell.

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2010], ©2010.

xiv, 192 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-179) and index.

Introduction -- Aedes, Anopheles, and the scourges of the South -- The glory of gangrene and "gallinippers" -- Mosquito coasts -- "The land of flowers, magnolias, and chills" -- "The pestilent marshes of the peninsula" -- "The roughest times any set of soldiers ever encountered" -- Biological warfare -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Incidence of mosquito-borne disease, 1861-1865 -- Appendix 2: Common diagnoses among Union troops, 1861-1866 -- Appendix 3: Civil War chronology.