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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC04633 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1862 |
| Title | Alfred W. Plattenburg to Alfred P. Putnam, sending a report of his mission |
| Date | 2 April 1862 |
| Author | Plattenburg, Alfred W. (fl. 1862) |
| Recipient | Putnam, Alfred P. |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Plattenburg, an agent working for the Western Sanitary Commission, sends Reverend Putnam a report of his mission to deliver hospital stores to Union troops fighting in Arkansas and Missouri. His report is printed on the same page with the orders he received to undertake the journey. To encourage donations to the Commission, he states "I am fully convinced that no army was (so far as provision for the wounded was concerned,) ever sent into the field in such destitute condition as ours ... Could the kind and sympathizing men and women of our loyal States, who place these abundant contributions at your command, but see and realize the thrill of joy with which they were received by the suffering ones ... " |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Union Forces Hospital Charity and Philanthropy Injury or Wound Military Supplies US Sanitary Commission |
| People | Plattenburg, Alfred W. (fl. 1862) Putnam, A. P. (Alfred Porter) (1827-1906) |
| Place written | St. Louis, Missouri |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | The Western Sanitary Commission served armies west of the Mississippi from the beginning of the Civil War, and was organized separately from the United States Sanitary Commission, though these two agencies often combined efforts. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |