Topographical map. Survey between Lake Ponchartrain and Mississippi River. |
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except you accompany them or they bring my written order.
Take your acclimated men and have those sick men attended to carefully.
Burn everything that they see, almost, for we must prevent the fever from spreading if we can. Orderly, take these orders to the quartermaster and have him see to it that bright
fires at the four corners of the square are kept burning day and night, supplied with tar barrels and pitch, so as always to keep an upward current of air.”
My orders, I have no doubt, were obeyed, and the fires were kept burning.
At the end of six days the men died.
The next day everything in and about the building which could possibly have anything
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