Please accept "Gunshot wound" for bullet wound. also, the actual cause of Zachary Taylor's death is unknown. There was a cholera outbreak that summer and it was possible that he drank water and/or milk infected with cholera. However, other sources claim that he died of stomach infection, heatstroke, Typhoid fever, and some even say he was poisoned. Taylor's doctor's concluded that it was cholera, but we may never know how he died.