Thelma has asked the nature of what is referred to in Henrico Co., VA records as "Chaffin's Farm Disease."  

I believe that "Chaffin's Farm Disease" was an expression used to describe the "camp fever" that spread among the wounded and sick soldiers "cared for" at the small Civil War field hospital near the Chaffins Farm Battlefield in VA (Sept. 29-30, 1864).  Though the diseases known as "fevers" usually may not now be further defined, virtually all field hospitals had "fevers" and diarrhea-like ailments often brought about by unhealthy sanitary conditions and lack of understanding.  Paul

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