THE
EPIDEMIC OF YELLOW FEVER IN NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA
during the summer and fall of 1855.
By J. D. Bryant, M. D.
Philadelphia: T. K. and P. G. Collins, 1856.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
THE FEVER: The Most Fatal Plague in American History
By Lon Wagner
Published by Koehlerbooks, Virginia Beach, VA, 2024
Available at local bookstores or Amazon
BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNTS
MEMOIR
OF REV. JAMES CHISHOLM, A. M.
Late Rector of St. John's
Church, Portsmouth, VA.
By David Holmes Conrad.
New York: Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical
Knowledge, 1856.
Chapters IX-XIII, pp. 76-152: Memoranda of the Pestilence.
A
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF REV. WILLIAM M. JACKSON
Late Rector of St. Paul's Church,
Norfolk, VA,
by the Rev. George D. Cummings,
Washington, DC: Gray & Ballantyne, 1856.
Chapters VII-IX, pp. 65-108: The Pestilence in Norfolk & Portsmouth,
Labors During the Pestilence, Closing Scenes of His Life.
"SADNESS
IN OUR CIRCLE":
Grace Whittle's Account of the 1855 Norfolk Yellow Fever Epidemic
Edited by Jennifer Davis McDaid, 1997, Archives Research Coordinator,
The Library of Virginia.
Reproduced with the permission of the author and the
Library of Virginia.
SERMONS OF THE PESTILENCE
DEATH
ARBITRARY.
Funeral Sermon of Dr. P. Claiborne Gooch
Who Died of Yellow Fever in Portsmouth, Va., Sept. 1855;
Delivered in Richmond, Va., March 2, 1856, By J. F. Burrows.
Richmond: Printed by C. H. Wynne, 1856.
THE
LESSON OF THE PESTILENCE
A Discourse Preached in the Presbyterian
Church, Norfolk, VA.,
on Sabbath, Dec. 2nd, 1855,
By George D. Armstrong, D. D., Pastor
Richmond: Printed by Charles H. Wynne, 1855.
Courtesy Library of Virginia, Richmond.
THE
PESTILENCE—GOD'S MESSENGER AND TEACHER
Discourse in Behalf of the Sufferers of
Norfolk and Portsmouth, VA.
Delivered in Trinity Church, Washington, September 9, 1855
By Rev. George D. Cummins, Rector
Washington: George D. Gideon, Printer, 1855.
Courtesy Library of Virginia, Richmond.
Sermon
Preached on Occasion of the Funeral of the Rev. William Jackson,
by the Right Rev. B. B. Smith, Bishop of the Diocese of Kentucky
from REMAINS OF THE REV. WILLIAM JACKSON,
New York: Stanford & Swords, 1846.
"THE
TERRIBLE DOINGS OF GOD"
A Sermon Delivered in the Court St. Baptist Church, Portsmouth,
VA,
Commemorative of Twenty-eight Members of Old Dominion Lodge, No. V,
Who Died During the Late Epidemic.
By Isaac W. K. Handy
"TERRORS
OF THE PESTILENCE"
A sermon by Rev. Richard S. Storrs, Jr., of the Church
of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, NY, September 30, 1855,
on the occasion when his church collected funds for the sufferers of the
pestilence at Norfolk.
THE
TRUE AND THE FALSE IN PREVALENT THEORIES OF DIVINE DISPENSATIONS.
A Discourse Delivered in the Unitarian Church, Washington City,
on Sunday, September 16, 1855, by Moncure D. Conway, Minister.
Washington, D. C.: Taylor & Maury, 1855.
THESIS
THE
YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC OF 1855 IN NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH:
an analysis of social response and
climate.
By Lara Marie Hamilton.
This thesis may not be reproduced in any format without the written permission
of both
the author and the University Archives, The College of William & Mary.
YELLOW FEVER IN JOURNALS
DISEASE
AND URBAN IMAGE:
Yellow Fever in Norfolk, 1855.
Reproduced with the permission of David R. Goldfield and the Library of
Virginia.
Originally published in VIRGINIA CAVALCADE, vol. 23, no. 2, (Autumn
1973): 34-41.
THE
CITY OF PESTILENCE.
Poetry by Samuel Selden.
THE MONTHLY VISITOR, Vol. 13, Aug. 1872, pp. 23-26
Obtained from the Virginia Historical Society.
ON
THE YELLOW FEVER OF NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH
By E. D. Fenner, M. D., New Orleans.
The Virginia Medical & Surgical Journal, December 1855, pp 509-511.
The Virginia Medical &
Surgical Journal: See
MEMORIALS
ACCOUNTS OF THE EPIDEMIC
BY LOCAL HISTORIANS
MEDICINE IN VIRGINIA
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
By Wyndham B. Blanton, M. D.
Richmond: Garrett & Massie, Inc., 1933.
Excerpt
from Chapter XII: Epidemics, pp. 224-238.
HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH
by Miss Mildred M. Holladay
Yellow
Fever, Chapter XIII, pp. 292-306
Also a feature of Portsmouth Star, 41st Annual Edition,
January 19, 1936.
THE HISTORY OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA
By H. W. Burton of the Norfolk Virginian,
Norfolk Virginian, Job Print, 1877.
The
Yellow Fever, pp. 20-25.
Norfolk
in By-Gone Days by W. H. T. Squires
"The Pestilence" & "After the Pestilence"
Ledger Dispatch December 16, 1937
MEMORIALS.
Indexed.
FOR
YOUNG READERS
HEALTH
HEROES: WALTER REED
Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., New York, 1926.
In 1900 Walter Reed and the Yellow Fever
Commission
exposed the mosquito as the carrier of yellow fever.
"He robbed the pestilence of its terrors
and caused the cities of the southland
to sit in peace within their gates."
From memorial plaque at Kings County Hospital, NYC.
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