No. 59a: Fourth Report Concerning the Aid and Comfort given by the Sanitary Commission to Sick Soldiers Passing Through Washington (with Appendix A, B, and Supplement)
This item is a report regarding aid supplied by the U.S. Sanitary Commission to sick soldiers that passed through Washington. It refers to the provision of homes and lodges to soldiers as well. Also included is an appendix and a supplement.
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SANITARY COMMISSION.
No. 59a.
FOURTH REPORT
CONCERNING THE
Air and Comfort giben bm the Samitary Commission
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TO
SICK SOLDIERS PASSING THROUGH WASHINGTON.
[SECOND EDITION. WITH A SUPPLEMENT, DATED FEB. 1, 1863,
SHOWING CERTAIN ADDED MEANS OF RELIEF.]
By FREDERICK N. KNAPP,
SPECIAL RELIEF AGANT.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15th, 1862.
To FRED. LAW OLMSTED,
General Secretary Sanitary Commission.
SIR : My last report bore date of March 21st. In April I
went to York river, in the hospital transport service, and
was absent from Washington until August. For the first
few weeks after I left, Mr. Henry B. Rogers superintended
the work of Special, Relief, thereby simply laboring still
more largely in the field where he had before been working
so faithfully and generously.
When Mr. Rogers left, and until my return, Mr. Francie
Fowler acted as Special Relief Agent, in connection with
the other duties assigned to him. His work during that
time, Ijudge, was eminently humane, judicious, persevering,
and efficient. Since my return, I have myself resumed the
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