Partial Manuscript of Chapters XXIX or XXX: History of the Hospital Directory at Louisville"

This item is a partial manuscript of Chapter XXIX or XXX that was apparently written for, but not used in, "History of the Special Relief Service of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861-1865," by Frederick N. Knapp, Special Relief Agent.

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Heb 22-23-1884 Knota for a Prefare if one is needed The designed of the History of Homes & Lookie is to set forth such factor ae will convey a fair idea of this branch of San Commision. To go into details in the skeleta ofeach institutions would have been compossible as well as unselese. Therefore the first Home - at Washington has been lateen as a simple + the rest gone over rafindly (1) Thoe will account for the disproparth of space, many others having really of processortance, B. ut as the story had to be total in detail once. tak the documente of the skachig Home were more complete than of any other it was total gotten t out of the way, of lot routine. work, first growth" Rivements, were greatly equalled by other Homee; so that the reader is tasked to tate the of of the only Home as one which was, save in local particulars, true of the other Homes-t to consider all that part of the histories of the others as having been told in the Chanching Shelets.