The Beginning of the Ming Dynasty. During the final 40 years of the Yuan Dynasty era (1279â1368), there were famines, drought, flooding on the Yellow River, a bubonic plague pandemic, and other natural disasters.
Cause of Death The Stonewall Jackson Monument on the Manassas Battlefield. By Rob Shenk â CC BY-SA 2.0. Four days later he begins to complain of chest pains and difficulty breathing. His surgeon and doctor, Hunter Holmes McGuire, diagnoses pneumonia in the right lung. Pneumonia was one of the most common causes of death during the Civil War. Doctors of the time sometimes relied on methods that were fast going out of favor. Stonewall was given mercury for its strong laxative properties and to induce vomiting.
Civil War The Civil War was the deadliest war in the history of the United States. In all, over 600,000 people died as a direct result of injury in battle, disease, or as prisoners.