The reminiscence's narrator was taken with scarlet fever, with a two months' sickness.

The evidence

• “Fortunately for us until September, 1838, when we were taken down with the fever and ague, we were generally well except I was taken in May 1838 with the Scarlet fever. I had a long two months' sickness with this.”

  1900-caswell-reminiscences/07-fort-atkinson-and-early-janesville.md, PDF pp. 3–27

  Caswell, Lucien Bonaparte. The Reminiscences of the Hon. L. B. Caswell. Written at Fort Atkinson, Wis., 1914–1916; four-column newspaper reprint, newspaper and date unidentified. University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries.

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