Circular presenting an Appeal from the Chicago Branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission to the Women of the Northwest

This item is a circular that presents an appeal by the Chicago branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission to the women of the Northwest regarding the donation, packing, and shipping of supplies (provided in a list) needed for hospitals.

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1. For the Immediate Relief of our Sick and Wounded Soldiers. doir 1098 bas. asoging ada 1034 -1100 a or APPEAL TO THE arsh WOMEN OF THE NORTH-WEST BY THE CHICAGO SANITARY COMMISSION: d ylizen BRANCH OF THE U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION, OFFICE AND DEPOT, No. 41 WABASH AVENUE, CHICAGO, November 1, 1861. COUNTRYWOMEN : There is a service you owe your country, which she now calls upon you to perform. It is to make full provision for the relief and comfort of our sick and wounded soldiers. From every city, and town, and neighbor- hood of the North-West, these brave men have gone to defend our National honor, and we feel assured that you-their wives, mothers, sisters, daugh- ters-will need no other appeal to awaken all your interest and activity than the simple statement that many of them are now lying sick and wounded in the military hospitals, enduring sufferings and privations which it is in your power to relieve. Our Government, although earnestly desiring to make ample provision for all her soldiers, both in health and in sickness, has thus far failed to accomplish fully this result, The United States Sanitary Com- mission at Washington, a volunteer and unpaid Bureau of the War Depart- ment, has been for months engaged in earnest efforts to supply these defi- ciencies, and with a success most encouraging for the future. Such a Commission has been organized in Chicago as a Branch of the United States Sanitary Commission. We have already sent a Committee of two of our number to visit and thoroughly inspect the various camps and hospitals in and near our State-at Cairo, Bird's Point, Fort Holt, Mound City, Paducah, and in Missouri-and it is, therefore, from personal knowl-