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| | The American Civil War: An Environmental View, The Use of the Land, Nature Transformed, TeacherServe, National ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Whenever a predominantly rural people are suddenly and densely brought together in encampments and cities, as they were in 1861, they exchange pathogens and, lacking immunities, many sicken, and many die. |
 | | The war’s staggering toll of young menthree quarters of a million dead, from combat, disease, exposure, accidentunbalanced the sex ratio for at least a generation, especially in the South, with difficult-to-calculate consequences in terms of labor, business, private life, and the natural world. |
 | | Vultures, common and plentiful throughout the regions where the war was fought, stayed away, apparently discouraged by the noise of artillery. |
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