History of the United States Sanitary Commission : being the general report of its work during the war of the rebellion / by Charles J. Stillé.

  • United States Sanitary Commission
Date:
1866
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Credit: History of the United States Sanitary Commission : being the general report of its work during the war of the rebellion / by Charles J. Stillé. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in the letter of the New York delegation to the Secre- tary of War of the 22d of May. The order appoint- ing them directed that they should correspond freely with the Department and with the Medical Bureau concerning these subjects, and on this footing and with- in these limits, their relations with the official authori- ties were established. To enable them to carry out fully the purposes of their appointment the Surgeon- General issued a circular, announcing the creation of the Commission, and directing all the officers in his department to grant its Agents every facility in the prosecution of their duties. On the 12th of June the gentlemen named as Com- missioners in the order of the Secretary of War of the pirst meeting of 9th, (with the exception of Professor Wy- the Commission. man w]10 iiaq declined his appointment,) assembled at Washington. They proceeded to orga- nize the Board by the selection of the Rev. Dr. Bellows as President. Their first care was to secure the services of certain gentlemen as colleagues, who were supposed to possess special qualifications, but whose names had not been included in the original warrant. Accordingly Dr. Elisha Harris and Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew were unanimously chosen Com- missioners at the first meeting, and George T. Strong, Esq., and Dr. J. S. Newberry, in like manner, at the one next succeeding.* At the first session “ a Plan of * The following named gentlemen were elected by the Board, Members of the Commission at different periods during the war; Rt. Rev. Bishop Clark, Hon. R. W. Burnett, Hon. Mark Skinner, Hon. Joseph Holt, Horace Binney, Jr., Rev. J. H. Heywood, Prof. Fairman Rogers, J. Huntington Wolcott, Charles J. Stille, E. B. M‘Cagg, F. Law Olmsted.
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