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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: War photography
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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THE SANITARY COMMISSION A SUCCESS—WOMEN IN THE FIELD, 1864, The creation of the Sanitary Commission was due to the desire of women to be of real, tangible help in the war. The plan at firstmet with little favor at Washington. The medical corps was indifferent, if not actually hostile, and the War Department was inopposition. But finally the acting surgeon-general was won over, and the plan took definite shape. The idea was to inquire intothe recruiting service of the several States, to look into the subjects of diet, clothing, cooks, camping-grounds, in fact everythingconnected with the prevention of disease; and to discover methods by which private and unofficial interest and money might supple-ment the appropriations of the Government. During the first two years of the war, the camps of several hundred regiments wereexamined by inspectors appointed by the Commission, who advised the commanding officer as to proper location and sanitation.
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A LINK WITH THE FOLKS AT HOMESANITARY COMMISSION OFFICERS AND NURSES AT FREDERICKSBURG, IN 186-4 After the first enthusiasm of the different communities had passed, and folks at home realized that the boxes of edibles and wearingapparel they forwarded often reached, not their own dear ones but the Union soldier at large, speakers and organizers were sent outto stir the flagging interest in the work of the Sanitary Commission. Women who had been at the front, such as those shown sittingbefore the boxes and barrels in this photograph, told their experiences. Mrs. Mary A. Livermore began her career as public speakerby addressing such gatherings. The standard set was a box a month for the soldiers. The presence of these nurses and suppliesat the front after Spotsylvania was an incalculable blessing to the thousands of wounded soldiers and to the medical corps.

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