The Leading Cause Of Death In The Civil War Was Kind Of Embarrassing
January 11, 2017
It truly was a call of duty.
The leading cause of death for soldiers in the American Civil War was not from battle wounds -- it was from diarrhea.
That's right. It was so bad that the soldiers had an honor code against shooting someone who was pooping.
Here's the excerpt from Oxford Journals:
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