Plague among the magnolias : the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi / Deanne Stephens Nuwer.

1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mississippi

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2009], ©2009.

xv, 188 pages : map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-183) and index.

Mississippi in the 1870s -- Yellow fever's causes, symptoms, and treatments -- The fever arrives -- Responses to yellow fever -- The human suffering -- Mississippi and the affirmation of antebellum values -- Yellow fever departs -- Conclusion.