Manuscript containing "Home for Female Nurses" and "The Home for Wives and Mothers of Sick Soldiers"

This item is a manuscript 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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