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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
ty of the meagre telegraphic dispatch hurried across the continent. It is sincerely to be hoped the particulars to come hereafter will mitigate the severity of the present verdict. Sickness caused from "Exposure to a draft." The Newburyport (Mass.) Herald says it never knew it so sickly before at Newburyport as it is now. The disease affects only males between the ages of 18 and 45. The cases are very distressing. Several have occurred where men have nearly lost their sight; they sNewburyport as it is now. The disease affects only males between the ages of 18 and 45. The cases are very distressing. Several have occurred where men have nearly lost their sight; they say that bad as they hate the Confederates, they could not see one across the street, and spectacles are in demand. Some are badly ruptured, but were never troubled by it till last week; and others are lame. This disease affects the mind as well as the body. They see war in a different light than formerly, and some of the foremost Abolitionists begin to think that they would be willing to abandon the negro if the war could only be closed at once. This is a terrible disease and widely spread.