Yellow fever targeted the green - Outbreaks in southern US affected Irish immigrants greatly

Dr. Lockley's conclusion is total nonsense. If you survive yellow fever, you are immune to it for the rest of your life - that's why the vaccine works. The newly arrived Irish would have never been exposed to yellow fever, so they would never have developed any resistance to the disease. So of course they caught yellow fever at a higher rate than residents who had been exposed to the disease. It nothing to do with where they lived or what hours they worked and everything to do with the antibodies that were not in their bloodstreams.

sir peter: How about you take the lead of your fellow racist ciaradexy and quit posting here? You have nothing to offer but bigotry.

Rednecks - yellow fever? Should 'ave worked the night shift. Anyone ever heard of redskins getting it? The guy to the left of the back row standing looks a bit like Michael Collins - in a previous incarnation. I'm tellin' ya! That guy has had a busy few lives.

Every disease targets the poor most of all..This research is bullsh*t.It only stand to reason.Even in modern day life.The poorer your diet and how run down you are the more prone anybody is to disease.Newly arrived Irish working like slaves.Here we go again on IC..Making out the Irish were victims..Crap!!

Woundedknee, I'm sure the guy on the right with the beard and no mustache is Allen Pinkerton.

On second thoughts, are those guys in the pic Pinkerton agents? This is going to be under my skin till I identify them. No Civil War buffs out there?

To get an accurate, non-biased account of fellow fever, read "The American Plague" by Molly Caldwell Crosby of Johns Hopkins University. Yellow fever killed 100,000 Americans in port towns along the Mississippi R. and the coast from Texas to Rhode Island. In 1878, 5000 people died in Memphis, TN, 1/3 of the pop. The y.f. virus originated in West Africa and came to the U.S. via the slave ships. It was (Dr.) Maj. Walter Reed who led the research, discovering how the disease was spread.

Wounded Knee is right as it was also a plague during the building of the Panama Canal. We have been to beautiful Savannah and love the city. We have even been there for St. Patrick's day. Many of the Irish immigrants arrived half starved, so I am sure many of them also died from being so weak and forced to do such hard labor. The parade we attended was very sad as we saw surviving families marching with banners carrying their family names. The natives of Savannah asked the Irish to join them in the Confederate Army. The Irish, having no choice, said they would if they could have their own regiment. As everyone knows the Irish have always had a special way of fighting which they passed on to the American Army. When a leader fell, the next man took over. After the war in which they were a valiant regiment, the Irish were completely accepted in Savannah. They built their own schools, hospitals and even an orphanage as so many parents died young or were killed. On another note, I am sure everyone knows there were Irish in Maryland and Virginia from colonial times and they were very instrumental in the American Revolutionary War. They were also Catholics as the English King gave the Catholics land where they could live in peace. They gave it the very Catholic name of Maryland, but they also extended into Virginia.

I am pretty sure I've seen that picture before. Unfortunately can't remember where, but I think it shows CSA soldiers. As regards Yellow Fever, Savannah's biggest outbreak was in 1820. Elsewhere New Orleans was the city most ravaged by it. It hit northern cities too--Philadelphia was especially susceptible, maybe because it had links down the coast to Charleston and Savannah and from there down into the Caribbean.