Kentucky physician and leading expert on yellow fever Dr. Luke Blackburn was too old to enlist. But as a Confederate zealot, he was determined to serve the southern cause. He hatched a maniacal plan to defeat the Union by unleashing a biblical plague of yellow fever on the District of Columbia, killing Lincoln in the process. Learning of a nasty black vomit epidemic stalking Bermuda, which was also a haven for Confederate blockade runners, in April 1864, he made passage to the island. Upon arrival, Dr. Blackburn proceeded to fill several trunks with soiled garments and bedding from yellow
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