Full Moon gets partial blame for Gen. Jackson's death

[Laurie Verge]

Lincoln and I would agree on the subject of mosquitoes at least. I still have vivid memories of trying to sleep at night with one of those darned things humming around my ears. Without air conditioning, our home could be 90+ degrees during summer, but I still would sleep with a sheet pulled over my ears to discourage those suckers (pun intended).

My father was military and used to tell the story of a bivouac somewhere in North Carolina where the recruits were pestered with mosquitoes "the size of helicopters!" One night, while they were encamped under pup tents, a wind storm came up and swept away a lot of the tents. One of the recruits was still asleep, but yelling, "They got it, they got it! The (expletive deleted) mosquitoes got my tent!"