United States Sanitary Commission
The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War. It operated across the North, raised an estimated $25 million in Civil War era revenue (assuming 1865 dollars, $ million in ) and in-kind contributions to support the cause, and enlisted thousands of volunteers. The president was Henry Whitney Bellows, and Frederick Law Olmsted acted as executive secretary. It was modeled on the British Sanitary Commission, set up during the Crimean War (1853–1856), and from the British parliamentary report published after the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ("Sepoy Rebellion"). Provided by Wikipedia
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Published 1864
“...Philadelphia Great Central Fair for the United States Sanitary Commission, 1864...”
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Published 1863
“...United States Sanitary Commission. Cincinnati Branch...”
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Published 1864
“...United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia Branch....”
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Published 1866
“...United States Sanitary Commission. Statistical Bureau....”
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Published 1871
“...United States Sanitary Commission. Western Department....”
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Published 1861
“...United States Sanitary Commission. Philadelphia Branch....”
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Published 1864
“...United States Sanitary Commission. Boston Branch....”
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Published 1862
“...United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch....”
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Furness, Horace Howard 1833-1912.
“...United States Sanitary Commission Philadelphia Branch...”
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“...United States Sanitary Commission...”
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Published 1869
“...United States Sanitary Commission Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, Cleveland...”
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Published 1861
“...United States Sanitary Commission Cincinnati Depot For the Immediate Relief of Our Sick and Wounded...”
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Published 1864
“...United States Sanitary Commission....”
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