Chatham County GaArchives News.....The Cholera on Tybee Island August 4, 1866
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Mirror And Farmer (Manchester, N.H.) August 4, 1866
Mirror and Farmer (Manchester, N.H.), Saturday, August 4, 1866, p. 2, col. 4

THE CHOLERA ON TYBEE ISLAND - Awful Mortality. -

The following is an extract of a private letter from on board the steamer San
Salvador, at Tybee Island, Savannah, dated July 24: - 

We landed 470 troops on Tybee Island, and yesterday 80 of the members answered
to their names.. The cholera has done its work among them sure. They were so
completely demoralized that one hundred deserted, and are scattered all over
these Islands and they say that some have even got to Savannah. Of course people
there are much frightened. I have been in a good many tight places in my life,
but never saw anything to equal this. It was a common thing to see them bury ten
before breakfast, and the same number before supper, - and so we used to sit on
deck and see them carry the bodies along to their long home, day after day, and
finally requested the authorities to remove the burial place, which was right in
front of the ship. The sights we used to see were too much for the strongest of
us. I hope it will be the last of that kind I shall see. It is all over now, and
we are all in pretty good spirits.



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