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HE United States Sanitary Com-
T
mission was a great organized
volunteer agency, the predecessor
in this country of the Red Cross
Society,* "through which, outside
of the government, individuals wrought for
the good of the army.' The plan of the
commission came from a Unitarian clergy-
man, but the impulse which underlay the
thought was given by the women of the North
at the commencement of the Civil War. The
story contained in the following pages is in
outline that of the origin and development of
this merciful agency, together with personal
reminiscences of one branch of its work by
two noble American women who have had the
privilege of serving the government and the
people of the United States both in peace and
in war, in ways which have earned for them
the lasting gratitude of their countrymen.
Miss Louisa Lee Schuyler and Mrs. Wil-
liam B. Rice were young women when the
Civil War broke out. Miss Schuyler is a
great-granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton
and of General Philip Schuyler. Mrs. Rice
was Miss Gertrude Stevens, a granddaughter
of Ebenezer Stevens, Lieutenant Colonel of
Artillery during the Revolution and one of
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For a fuller account of the United States Sanitary Com-
mission, the reader is referred to the admirable description
by Mr. James Ford Rhodes in his History of the United
1866
States, Vol. V, and to the History of the United States
Sanitary Commission, by Dr. Charles Stillé, American His-
tory Room, Public Library, New York.
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This item is a leaflet that contains the personal reminiscences of Mrs. Richard Aldrich (formerly Louisa Lee Schuyler) and Mrs. William B. Rice (formerly Gertrude Stevens) regarding their experiences and service with the U.S. Sanitary Commission.

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