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Samuel Scism: A Stoddard County Unionist’s Civil War Tale

Samuel Scism: A Stoddard County Unionist’s Civil War Tale

Update: 2025-09-24
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Samuel Scism’s story is a common one among Civil War soldiers who survived prison camps. Vegetables in their diets might have prevented many cases of chronic dysentery. The state of medical care of the time meant that the malady was untreatable and subject to recurrence.
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Samuel Scism: A Stoddard County Unionist’s Civil War Tale

Samuel Scism: A Stoddard County Unionist’s Civil War Tale

Dr. Bill Eddleman