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This was Colonel Campbell, who had very highly regarded Fairfax, as an excellent officer and most deserving young man; and farther, had been indebted to him for such attentions, during a severe camp-fever, as he believed had saved his life.
Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001
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John had gone through a sharp attack of camp-fever; that Reuben was taken prisoner, but escaped by his own wit.
Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918
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Emerson's grandfather, a patriot chaplain in the Revolution, who died of camp-fever at Ticonderoga.
The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907
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It has long been known under the names of hospital-fever, spotted-fever, jail-fever, camp-fever, and ship-fever, and has been the regular associate of such social disturbances as overcrowding, excesses, famine, and war.
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It has long been known under the names of hospital-fever, spotted-fever, jail-fever, camp-fever, and ship-fever, and has been the regular associate of such social disturbances as overcrowding, excesses, famine, and war.
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Campbell, next year, went down to join Greene's army, did gallant work at Guilford Courthouse, and then died of camp-fever.
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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There is good trouting within an hour's walk for those who choose, and there is some interest, with a little exercise, in cooking and cutting night wood, slicking up, etc. But the whole party is stricken with "camp-fever," "Indian laziness," the dolce far niente.
Woodcraft George Washington Sears 1855
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Massachusetts regiment, and died in Mexico of camp-fever.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853
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His malady (camp-fever) had increased, and Washington sent Doctor Craik with him.
Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. Benson John Lossing 1852
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This, however, seems to have weakened his constitution, and rendered him an easy victim to what was called the camp-fever, then prevalent in Oxford.
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1 George Gilfillan 1845
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