United States Sanitary Commission
United States Sanitary Commission
- [association formed shortly after Fort Sumter was fired upon on April 12, 1861]
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Variants
U.S. Sanitary Commission Sanitary Commission (U.S.) Sanitation Commission (U.S.)
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
found: Douglas, J. H. Three years in the Sanitary Commission, 18--?
found: Olmsted, F.L. Defending the union, c1986: CIP t.p. (U.S. Sanitary Commission) CIP data (a civilian organization that had responsibility for the health of the volunteer soldiers in the Union Army) introd. (a voluntary organization)
found: NUCMC data from Litchfield Hist. Soc. for Confederate States of America note, 1864 Feb. 17 (one half of a $10 CSA note mounted on a card that explains that the note was carried by a Union soldier while held at Libby Prison in Va., during the Civil War; upon release, he gave one half of the note to two Sanitation Commission women who had nursed him to health in a New York hospital)
General Notes
- [association formed shortly after Fort Sumter was fired upon on April 12, 1861]
Change Notes
1979-08-02: new
2010-09-07: revised
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