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In March, 1864, C. Marion Dodson left his at ease home on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to enroll in the U.S. Navy as a pharmacist. Barely weeks after joining a Union fleet on blockade within the Gulf of Mexico, any other ship within the squadron raised the “Yellow Flag”—the signal that the feared yellow fever had stricken its crew. They desperately needed medical assist, his captain told Dodson. Somebody needed to go aboard and wager his life against the deadly unknown. Encounters with a comely Rise up belle in New Orleans and the explosive pursuit of the formidable C.S.S. William H. Webb make this full of life diary a memorable voyage for readers of Civil War literature.