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Michigan in the Civil War Sanitary Operations
n the summer and fall of 1862, after the dreadful closing battles of the peninsula, and the disastrous campaign of General Pope, the whole city of Washington became a vast hospital.
"The public buildings, the churches, and many private residences were made receptacles of wounded and sick soldiers.
"Scattered all through these our own brave men lay and languished, and
many died. But we are assured that the kind offices of the members of this
association assuaged their pains and carried relief to all within their reach;
and doubtless many owe their recovery to those special attentions impossible to
. be secured from the assistants detailed for the care of sick and wounded men
in hospital. During the fall of 1862 something like system was inaugurated
by the Medical Department of the Government commensurate with the magni
tude of the exigency.
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