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"The Civil War was a breeding ground for disease. Horrific battlefield conditions and a lack of sanitation let sickness run wild. For every soldier lost to wouonds, two died of illness. And for those who survived those perils, another snare was waiting: veneral disease. It wasn't enough to warn soldirs not to gratify their lusts, so officers tried to make the means of gratification unavailable....assuming control also meant takin on its (a city's) problems--specifically, prostitution."

"By July 1863, prostitution was such a problem in Nashville that the authorities decided to solve it once and for all. Lieutenant Colonel George Spalding was ordred to seize all of Nashville's prostitutes and ship them to Louisville, Kentucky."

Editor's Note: there is more to the story and a lot of it is unwritten or missing. rk