History of the United States Sanitary Commission Being the General Report of It
History of the United States Sanitary Commission Being the General Report of It
Stillé, Charles J. (Charles Janeway), 1819-1899
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While such were its relations with . Those with whom its Agents were brought into daily contact, and whose natural prejudices against any extra governmental in terference in the Army had been overcome by the 510 UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION. evidence of its value, it must be confessed that there was a want of cordial cooperation with its plans on the part of those in the higher regions of official authority, which was on every account much to be regretted. The attitude of the War Departmen...t espe cially, towards it was never that of open hostility, but rather of neglect and indifference. It was never re garded by that Department as it should have been, as one of the great glories of the war, and as the most comprehensive and successful method of mitigating its horrors known in history. While the evidence abounded in the reports of its own officers of the vast improvement which had been made in the con dition of the troops through its instrumentality di rect and indirect, no word of official approval of a work which was exciting the wonder, admiration, and grati tude of all humane and intelligent observers at home and abroad, was ever vouchsafed by the Government whose Agent it was.
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