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Seasick Sailor

 

In the southern climes, insect-borne malaria and yellow fever laid low many a crew.  And, regardless of what they had to work with, surgeons aboard the ironclads--and indeed every vessel--had no medicine for the ills of the spirit brought on by the strain of monotony, poor food, and unhealthy living conditions which produced much longer casualty lists than did rebel shells or mines.