Thursday, January 15, 1863
An epidemic of measles raged through the Union camp in Falmouth. One of the fatalities of the epidemic was sixteen-year old Ira Whitaker of Company G of the Thirteenth New Hampshire Regiment.1
References:
1S. Millett Thompson, Thirteenth Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 : A Diary Covering Three Years and a Day (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888), 99-100.
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