“An expeditionary force of 15,000 [Union troops] landed at Roanoke Island in early 1862 and spent much of the war enforcing a naval blockade from a fort on the coastline. The air at dusk shimmered with Anopheles quadrimaculatus. Between the summer of 1863 and the summer of 1864 the official annual infection rate for intermittent […]
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Union troops no match for N.C. mosquitoes
Posted in History, Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged 1493, charles c mann, malaria, mosquitoes, nc civil war, roanoke island on January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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