Report concerning the aid and comfort given by the Sanitary Commission to sick soldiers found at the railroad station / by Frederick N. Knapp.

  • Knapp, Frederick Newman, 1821-1889.
Date:
[1861?]
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Credit: Report concerning the aid and comfort given by the Sanitary Commission to sick soldiers found at the railroad station / by Frederick N. Knapp. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANITARY COMMISSION R E J? O R T CONCERNING THE JP> mtb Comfort gtfren bn fljc Samfarj (Commission TO SICK SOLDIERS FOUND AT THE RAILROAD STATION. By F R E D E I! I C K N. K N A P P. SPECIAL RELIEF AIM'.NT. Office of SSaniterg Commission, Treasury BuiLuiNa, Sept. 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 Commission : The main purpose had in view in this agency has been to lessen the hardships to which the ignorance of the sick volunteers and their offi- cers 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, when detached from their regiments, for which the govern- ment arrangements had been inadequate, and which the regular inspec- tors of the Commission, in their visits of camps and hospitals, could not attend to. Practically, the chief duty has been— First. To supply to the sick men of the regiments arriving here such medicines, food, and care as it was impossible for them to receive