Memphis Daily Appeal
Memphis, Tennessee
May 23, 1861
The Augusta Constitutionalist suggests to our volunteers who expect to be called into service, the propriety of protecting themselves against small pox by vaccination. That terrible disease is said to be already spreading among Lincoln’s troops, and it may be communicated designedly or accidentally to ours. Vaccination has been so much neglected of late years, that not one person in ten is protected from small pox, and if it gets among our soldiers it may be spread throughout the country.