Book/Printed Material The United States Sanitary Commission
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Image 1 of The United States Sanitary Commission _- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 2 of The United States Sanitary Commission- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 3 of The United States Sanitary Commission- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 4 of The United States Sanitary Commission- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 5 of The United States Sanitary Commission THE UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION REPRINTED FROM JOHNSONS UNIVERSAL ENCYCLOPEDIA FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 6 of The United States Sanitary Commission G P PUTNAMS SONS Printers 182 Fifth Avenue N Y- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 7 of The United States Sanitary Commission- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 8 of The United States Sanitary Commission- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 9 of The United States Sanitary Commission cs arET Qat 5 A Zfr Tiff THE UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION On April 15 186r the day on which the Presidents call appeared for 75000 men then deemed sufficient to quell…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 10 of The United States Sanitary Commission 111 2 THE UNITED STA TES the country so as to make effective with the least waste of time labor and money the generous and restless de sire to help the young…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 11 of The United States Sanitary Commission SA NI TAR Y COMMISSION 3 what way with least embarrasment to the government and most help to the army the women could serve the volunteers This committee soon discovered what might…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 12 of The United States Sanitary Commission 4 THE UNITED STATES fears instead of after the event of fearful losses by camp fevers the committee felt that it would be a great tri umph of reason and prudence They…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 13 of The United States Sanitary Commission 1Qt Ii wit SA NITA R Y COMAIISSION 5 alyticto have promised nothing but a paper existence and a speedy death after ignominious failure to fulfil any of its hopes If it…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 14 of The United States Sanitary Commission 6 THE U4VITED STATES partments having the supply of food transportation camp equipage drainage and incite them by kind and wholesome criticism and counsel and by the force of pub lic opinion…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 15 of The United States Sanitary Commission SA NI TAR Y COMMISSION 7 111i mititary discipiline and strictly conforming to it pacifying the fears and representing the solicitudes of home by doing all that could be done to supplement…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 16 of The United States Sanitary Commission THE UNITED STATES warned of the duty to prevent sickness by the medical inspectors of the Sanitary Commission until the in telligence and experience of the medical bureau had acquired the power…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 17 of The United States Sanitary Commission SAyVITARY COMMISSION 9 from first to last treated the Commission from the cabinet and the medical bureau to the generals and surgeons on the field was a salutary restraint upon what might…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 18 of The United States Sanitary Commission lo THE UNITED STATES technical nature the medical department would be the last the government would either understand or criticise The Sanitary Commission soon concluded that the great est service it could…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 19 of The United States Sanitary Commission SANI TA R Y COMMISSION I I T I railroad depots and later developed into a complete sys tem of soldiers homes in which the estrays the men passing from the hospitals…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 20 of The United States Sanitary Commission I 2 THE UNITED STATES supplied with every comfort with surgeons and nurses plied between the ports nearest to the seats of war and the nearest general hospitals and transported in compar…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 21 of The United States Sanitary Commission SANITARY COMMISSION 13 try were excited about the lint and bandage question and certainly it was the desire to meet these supposed wants that induced the framers of the Commission to go…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 22 of The United States Sanitary Commission 4 THE UNITED STATES soldiers in a measure likely to satisfy the homes of the land And it was felt that the furnishing of extra sup plies if left to the impulse…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 23 of The United States Sanitary Commission SANITARY COMMISSION 15 Iii the impatience of mothers wives and sisters to recall their husbands and brothers and sons and filled up the weary years and months with active duty instead of…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 24 of The United States Sanitary Commission 16 THE UNITED STATES On Sept 5 1861 depots of supplies were established at New York Boston Philadelphia Washington Cincinnati and Wheeling Already central aid associations existed at Boston for New England…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 25 of The United States Sanitary Commission 1 SA NITA R Y COMMISSION ii repacked and held subject to orders from Washington They were shipped to any point where supplies were needed or likely to be needed to the…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 26 of The United States Sanitary Commission 18 THE UNITED STATES the homes rests and field agencies that accompanied the various corps of the army in the field At the call of its circulars immense quant ities of potatoes…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 27 of The United States Sanitary Commission SANITARY COMMISSION 19 a voucher from the surgeon showing that he had called for aid These rules seem strict but any looser ones would have made the Commission a curse to the…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 28 of The United States Sanitary Commission 20 THE UNITED STATES mission did not fail to meet the occasion Relief on this vast scale in all departments of the army was the regular daily business of the Commission and…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 29 of The United States Sanitary Commission SANTAR Y COMMISSION 21 it could command and treat with the discipline to which unpaid agents would not submit These men had theii badges of office and were known and respected in…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 30 of The United States Sanitary Commission osiror 22 TIJE TED STA TES inevitable preoccupation of the quartermasters depart ment with the more urgent duty of forwarding military stores The Sanitary Commission as one of its chief means of…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 31 of The United States Sanitary Commission 1 SA 17TA R COAL LTISSJOJV 23 other conveniences It had succeeded in transporting from the purveyors office in New York to the depot at Frederick 4000 sets of hospital clothing and…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 32 of The United States Sanitary Commission 24 TILE UNITED STATES Prof Hadley of the Union Theological Seminary Mrs Barlow wife of MajGen Barlow and Miss Gil son perhaps the flower of female heroism and devotion in the whole…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 33 of The United States Sanitary Commission SANITARY COMMISSION 25 be obtained regularly 2 to furnish lodgings food and furtherance to soldiers honorably discharged from service or dismissed from general hospitals or from their regiments but delayed on their…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 34 of The United States Sanitary Commission 26 THE UNITED STATES ville Ky to Port Royal S C Over 4500000 meals and over 1o0o000 nights lodgings were thus supplied and 2500000 of soldiers wages were collected by the Sani…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 35 of The United States Sanitary Commission SANITARY COMMISSION 27 Secure arrears of pay amounting to 2o0000 Prisoners of war while in prison and when released by general exchange were largely and promptly relieved and com forted by this…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 36 of The United States Sanitary Commission 28 THE UNITED STATES the person inquired for and the place he had been last heard from With this clue he was followed through the book and hospitals by the agents and…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 37 of The United States Sanitary Commission SANITARY COMMISSION 29 urgent call on the farmers of the Northwest for a gratuitous supply of vegetables Within a month 1500o bushels were gathered without cost from a region where the government…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 38 of The United States Sanitary Commission 3o THE UNITED STATES agents of the Commission with boatloads of stores for the heroes who had achieved so difficult a victory The following list will show the nature and the amount…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 39 of The United States Sanitary Commission SANITAR Y COMMISSION 31 In June 1863 the Army of the Cumberland set out to take Chattanooga over a barren region mountainous and ill inhabited a poor railroad held by the enemy…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
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Image 40 of The United States Sanitary Commission 32 THE UNITED STATES rags bandages and hospital clothing and reached Chat tanooga with the first army train which arrived there Three more wagons afterward got through These ten wagon loads constituted…- Contributor: Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney) - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1870-01-01
About this Item
Title
- The United States Sanitary Commission
Names
- Bellows, Henry W. (Henry Whitney), 1814-1882.
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- [New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, printers, 187-?]
Headings
- - United States Sanitary Commission
Notes
- - "Reprinted from 'Johnson's universal encyclopædia' for private distribution."
- - Cover title.
- - LAC nsk 2020-09-18 update (1 card)
Medium
- 51 p. ; 20 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E631.Z5 B44
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 12030918
OCLC Number
- 1313028
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- online text