Yellow Flag: A Civil War Doctor's Journal

by Charles Albert Earp

In March, 1864, C. Marion Dodson left his comfortable home on Maryland's Eastern Shore to join the U.S. Navy as a pharmacist. Barely weeks after joining a Union fleet on blockade in the Gulf of Mexico, another ship in the squadron raised the "Yellow Flag"--the signal that the dreaded yellow fever had stricken its crew. They desperately needed medical help, his captain told Dodson. Someone had to go aboard and wager his life against the deadly unknown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0938420798
• ISBN13: 9780938420798
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Maryland Historical Society
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher