. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THK COURT HOUSE AT BATON ROUGE The Parade of a Part of a Regiment of Federal Troops at Baton Rouge. It would take a long search to find a finer body of menthan these trained and seasoned veterans here drawn up in line. The campaign on the lower Mississippi was a survival of the fittestin more ways than one. Sickness was rife, and only those in the best condition and the hardiest kept in trim for active service. Inmany cases regiments could muster only 120 men. Camp fevers and the threat of the yellow scourge were always present. Th
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . THK COURT HOUSE AT BATON ROUGE The Parade of a Part of a Regiment of Federal Troops at Baton Rouge. It would take a long search to find a finer body of menthan these trained and seasoned veterans here drawn up in line. The campaign on the lower Mississippi was a survival of the fittestin more ways than one. Sickness was rife, and only those in the best condition and the hardiest kept in trim for active service. Inmany cases regiments could muster only 120 men. Camp fevers and the threat of the yellow scourge were always present. Thereturns of the regiments employefl in the vicinity of New Orleans show a startling mortality. The Thirteenth Connecticut lost bydisease 160 men. The Twenty-first Indiana, whose casualty list in the battle of Baton Rouge was 130, lost twice that number fromsickness. A larger proportion of sick to killed and wounded prevailed in the Fourteenth JIaine and the Seventh \crmont—thefbrmer losing 332 and the latter DRESS-PARADE OF FEDERAL TROOPS AT BATON ROl
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