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Josiah Burnett, who was enlisted in Company D with the Booker brothers, was admitted into Chimborazo Hospital with typhoid fever on October 26, 1861. He returned to duty on December 16, 1861, and he died of meningitis on February 12, 1862 (Gregory, 84).

Jaundice is yellowing of the skin, tissues and eyes by deposition of bile pigment, caused by interference with production or discharge of bile (as in some liver diseases) or by breakdown of red blood cells (as after internal hemorrhage). Yellow fever is commonly accompanied by jaundice. James May was sent to the hospital on July 15, 1862 and died shortly thereafter on July 22, 1862. It is not certain if jaundice was responsible for his death (Gregory, 109).

Hugh Norton, a private in Company D, went AWOL from the camp on July 5, 1862. He returned later, but went AWOL again on January 1, 1864.

William C. Prewett became sick on August 30, 1861. He died of colic on September 4, 1861 (Gregory, 118.)

Aunt Kitty, Uncle John Blair, and Christian Keen Blair moved to Texas in 1860. James and John Booker had stayed with Uncle John and Aunt Kitty Blair after their parents died of typhoid in 1859.