Two reports concerning the aid and comfort given by the Sanitary Commission : to sick soldiers passing through Washington / by Frederick N. Knapp.

  • Knapp, Frederick Newman, 1821-1889.
Date:
[1861]
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Credit: Two reports concerning the aid and comfort given by the Sanitary Commission : to sick soldiers passing through Washington / by Frederick N. Knapp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANITARY COMMISSION. No. 35. TWO REPORTS CONCERNING THE %h mfo Comfort gifatu bjr % Snmtavg Commission SICK SOLDIERS PASSING THROUGH WASHINGTON. BY FREDERICK N. KNAPP, SPECIAL RELIEF AGENT. FIRST REPORT. Office of Sanitary Commission, Treasury Building, September 23, 1861. To Fred. Law Olmsted, Esq., Secretary of the Sanitary Commission: Sir : In answer to your request, I submit the following report, as Special Relief Agent of the Sanitary Commis- sion : The main purpose had in view in this agency has been to lessen the hardships to which the ignorance of the sick vol- unteers and their officers of the forms and methods of gov- ernment make them subject while in the city of Washington, and to provide for certain wants of the volunteers, when