{"id":9239,"date":"2024-06-12T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/?p=9239"},"modified":"2024-06-12T15:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T15:46:06","slug":"history-of-the-united-states-sanitary-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lshtm.ac.uk\/library\/2024\/06\/12\/history-of-the-united-states-sanitary-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the United States Sanitary Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>History of the United States Sanitary Commission \/ by Charles J Still\u00e9 \u2013 New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1868.<\/p>\n<p>For digitized copy (Wellcome Collection) follow this link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/works\/fynmu6gu\">https:\/\/wellcomecollection.org\/works\/fynmu6gu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1861 to support sick and wounded soldiers of the U.S. Army (Union Army) during the American Civil War (1861-1865), the United States Sanitary Commission was a private relief agency created by Federal legislation. It was disbanded in 1866. It was modelled on the British Sanitary Commission, set up in response to the Crimean War (1853-1856), and the British parliamentary report on the Indian Mutiny of 1857.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;history&#8221; is the official report of the operations of the Commission during the war, setting out the challenges faced in supporting the health and welfare of what was essentially a volunteer army, although its services spread to regular soldiers and sailors. Funds raised by the Commission helped fund the war effort. Author Charles J Still\u00e9 was the tenth Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, who produced a propaganda pamphlet entitled &#8220;How free people conduct a war&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Public Library Archives &amp; Manuscripts holds the Sanitary Commission Records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archives.nypl.org\/mss\/3101#overview\">archives.nypl.org &#8212; United States Sanitary Commission records<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of the United States Sanitary Commission \/ by Charles J Still\u00e9 \u2013 New York&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":336,"featured_media":9282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7575,81955,1],"tags":[81968,81970,81887,81969,81971],"class_list":["post-9239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-historical-collection","category-uncategorised","tag-american-civil-war","tag-conflict-and-health","tag-decolonisation","tag-military-hygiene","tag-social-history-united-states","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>History of the United States Sanitary Commission - Library, Archive &amp; 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