Sanitary Commission, No. 29 Report Concerning The Aid and Comfort given by the Sanitary Commission to Sick Soldiers Found at the Railroad Station

This report was from the Office of Sanitary Commission, Treasury Building, September 23, 1861 to Frederick Law Olmsted, Esq., Secretary of the Sanitary Commission.

The report states that the main purpose in this agency has been to lessen the hardships to which the ignorance of the sick volunteers and their officers of the forms and methods of government make them subject while in the city of Washington, and to provide for certain wants of the volunteers.  He went on to explain the three chief duties to supply to the sick men of the regiments arriving here but the facilities for carrying out this aim of the Commission have been very deficient. There was no fit place at the reception buildings where sick men could be made comfortable; no means near at hand for providing such food as was needed. Government did not recognize the necessity or fitness of such provision. In his report he included some brief point from a journal which he kept. Each date mentioned is filled with details of what was seen and experienced. The number of soldiers who have thus received care at the hands of the Commission is not far from seven hundred. This covers the time from August 9th to September 23rd.

Frederick N. Knapp

1861, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, 13 pp.

ISBN: 9780788475115

101-K7511