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:
- 1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![Nnmber and stantly employed was about tbree hundred. fnborTinat thought important, for reasons Agents. which havB been already stated, that these Agents should receive a moderate compensation. How moderate that compensation was may be inferred, when it is stated that they received on an average two dollars per day for labor, which was, at least half of it, highly skilled, sometimes of professional eminence, and worth from five to ten times that amount. Few of these men could be had for the money, but they worked for love and patriotism, and were content with a bare sup- port. The Board, (all included, twenty-one in num- ber)—President, Vice-president, Treasurer, medical committee, standing committee—gave their services and their time gratuitously. They received nothing. Their traveling expenses alone were partly refunded them, and these were trifling, excepting in the case of one or two who went frequently on tours of observation. It will thus be seen that the machinery of the inter- nal organization of the Commission was arranged with Adaptation of ^]^q utmost Care to meet the exigencies of means to the end ^ _ _ in the History the service. Order, regularity, subordina- of the Commis- it-t •j.'ii tion, and discipline were maintained by a system of graded responsibility, in which each Agent had his position and duties exactly defined. The his- tory of the war proved that this organization was per- fectly adapted to accomplish the practical ends pro- posed by it. This result was, of course, much aided by the character of the Agents in whose selection and training much care had been exercised. They formed, at all times, a most faithful and intelligent body of men, and the success of their work is to be attributed, in no](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21459472_0514.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
