Both Uses of
smallpox
in
Cold Sassy Tree
- She used to tell about a Confederate soldier from Cold Sassy who got sent to Andersonville to guard Yankee prisoners and passed away in the smallpox epidemic there.†
- Pore thang got over thar and died of the smallpox two months later.†
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Definition:
a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars