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Michigan in the Civil War Sanitary Operations
The American sanitary measures were undoubtedly the most; extensive and liberal ever undertaken by a people in any war, and accomplished much in ameliorating the sufferings incident to a great and prolonged war.
SOLDIERS' RELIEF ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D. C.
The beneficent effort of the American masses was very early entered into by Michigan people. The "Michigan Soldiers' Belief Association, " of Washington, D. C, is claimed to have been the first of the kind put in operation in the field on the Atlantic slope and the last to leave it. In the autumn of 1861 it commenced its humane work, continuing in successful labor until September, 1866. It proved a source of great relief to Michigan soldiers serving in the Army of the Potomac scattering liberally among them kindly friendship, fraternal care, affording them many comforts and necessaries of life when sorely needed.
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