Manuscript entitled "Department of the Gulf - Transports"
This item is a manuscript that was 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. It was not included in the final version.
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Heights. of the Gulf Transporte
In the Gulf the field relief
work of the Commission was marked
by peculiar efficiency under charge
of dfs. Geor a. Blake. Chief
Every expedition of the many expectation
starting from New frleans
registration
established at the barraches. during
the October the
(/)
medical depentment decided to
try experimental giving the
the
Convoleccente. the benefitiging a sea
voyage to New for treturn, most
of these cosvalescentewere left at
the came by their Commanding
officers, who neglested to leave their
descriptive rolls. The requestionst
of Colothering tomake the men Comfortable
could not be obtained from the Quarter
master, there being no descriptive
at hand. and Col. Beckwith U.S.A.
Commanding offener of New Brleans
requested your agent to furnish the
men what was indesperable fouthern