Chillicothe, Camp Sherman and the Spanish Flu : The Making of Blood Alley

No one was prepared when the Spanish flu struck in the fall of 1918, but how could they have been? It sickened and killed record numbers of people in the United States and around the world. Chillicothe, Ohio, was one small town facing the killer epidemic. Adding to the resident's burden was Camp Sherman, a World War I training facility located on the outskirts of their city, where some 11,000 men would fall ill and more than 1,000 would die. This is the story of the people of Chillicothe and the doctors and nurses at the Base Hospital, who faced a nightmare almost beyond description. Together they did their best to make it through the nightmare of bloody sheets, devastated families and dead bodies too numerous to process. A genealogist's dream, Chillicothe, Camp Sherman and the Spanish Flu: The Making of Blood Alley also contains the names of those who succumbed to the Spanish Lady.