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Michigan in the Civil War Sanitary Operations
It may be possible that the many quiet and unseen efforts of those noble and kind-hearted people, made with so much labor and sacrifice, were not fully appreciated at the time by those outside the immediate recipients, but such have their reward, for their humane acts are recorded by Him who rewards openly the charity and kindly offerings to the needy which are given even in secret.
Prominent among the laborers in the work was Chaplain Samuel Day, 8th Illinois Infantry, military agent for United States sanitary supplies, a citizen of Michigan, a most efficient and industrious worker in the field, who collected in this State in 1863, and forwarded to Chicago for distribution in the Western army, nearly 6ix thousand barrels of vegetables of various kinds, together with over three thousand dollars in money.
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