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Michigan in the Civil War Sanitary Operations
The plan of the commission is to minister both to the mental and spiritual, as well as the bodily wants of the army. It sends the living preacher, the Bible, and the religious newspapers of all denominations, and all the time it is ministering to the temporal wants of the soldier, and working for the sick, wounded and dying searches for the wounded amid the thickets of the batfield, and never leaves him till he is discharged from hospital, or a prayer consigns him to a soldier's grave.
All the delegates of the commission are ministers and laymen, selected for their fitness for the work, who labor each six weeks without any compensation,
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