HISTORY

Camp Life Expectancy

A report from a camp in Norfolk, Virginia:

Regulars: 1,660
Sick: 250
Died: 21

Militia: 4,590
Sick: 2,012
Died: 160
Discharges for inability to perform duties: 290
'Half-Sick': 691

Thomas Ritchie, Richmond Enquirer, January 19, 1815.

That means as militia you are three times more like to die in camp!