Professor John McCurdy

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He's a private.

And he has a woman that he was bringing into the barracks in New York.

And everybody agrees this is not his wife.

And in fact, they get into this conversation of, well, we know he's not bringing this woman into the barracks for lascivious reasons.

And they say, well, how do we know this?

And they said, well, he's lost his private parts to venereal disease.

No, that's the quote.

Had lost his private parts to venereal disease.

So I don't know exactly.

They don't detail more than that.

But I mean, they do chase the woman out of the barracks, which then causes this man to desert.

I mean, it's it seems from what I'm able to find, it's again, you're right.

We don't have good numbers.

It's reported sort of irregularly.

But among the American army, we'll talk about, you know, 20 men show up at Fredericksburg, New York, and in October of 1778 have venereal disease.

42 cases a couple months later.

So, I mean, they report different places.

I think the best information I found was there's a general return of the sick and wounded in the military hospitals from February of 1780.

And this is the Continental Army.

And they report 115 patients who have venereal disease for whom it's so severe that they're hospitalized.

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