Before and after the fight, typhoid, diarrhea, scurvy, and the fevers associated with malarial diseases ravaged troops on both sides. Sherman’s forces met the enemy in a bloody battle. The first test of this theory came in April 1862 in Shiloh, Tennessee, where Union General William T. Just wait until summer, Southern newspapers predicted. In 1862, the second year of the American Civil War, Southerners took satisfaction in knowing that invading Union army troops would succumb to tropical diseases endemic to the South’s bayous, swamps, and coastal regions.
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