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History Matters: Yellow Jack

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Between August and November 1873 Shreveport lost one-quarter of its population (or about 2,500 out of 10,000) to the third greatest epidemic of yellow fever to strike the United States.
Dr. Gary Joiner
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Dr. Gary Joiner

Airs Tuesday, May 1, 2018, at 7:45 a.m. This week Commentator Dr. Gary Joiner looks back at the scourge of Yellow Jack in the South, and the outbreak of 1873 in Shreveport.

History Matters is made possible in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities and Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine.

Gary Joiner is a cartographer and an associate professor of history at LSU in Shreveport. He is the author or editor of 12 books including “Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862,” “One Damn Blunder From Beginning to End: The Red River Campaign in 1864,” “Through the Howling Wilderness: The Red River Campaign and Union Failure in 1864,” “Red River Steamboats,” and “Mr. Lincoln's Brown Water Navy: Mississippi Squadron.”