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Following much research, located this data at the site cited at the end of this info. Hope it is helpful. ** 1861-1865: Epidemics of dysentery, typhoid fever, hepatitis, malaria, smallpox, measles, and venereal diseases. More than three times as many soldiers died of infectious disease than died of battle wounds.
1861-1865: North America Typhoid 187,000 dead. This is also period of The Civil War.
1862: Florida Scarlet Fever.
1863: New Orleans, LA Yellow Fever.
1865-1873: Philadelphia, PA, New York, Boston, MA & New Orleans, LA Smallpox Same period of time, in Washington DC, Baltimore, MD, Memphis, TN Cholera & a series of recurring epidemics of Typhus, Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever.
1873-1875: North America & Europe Influenza.
1873: Nebraska Diphtheria.
1877: Los Angeles, CA Smallpox.
1878: New Orleans, LA & Memphis, TN Yellow Fever Last Great Epidemic of Yellow Fever. More than 5,000 fatalities & 25,000 in "crazed flight" in Memphis. 13,000 die in the lower Mississippi Valley.
Source: <http://genealogyinc.com/encyclopedia.html>
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