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Michigan in the Civil War Sanitary Operations
"This organization was the first of the kind in the field upon the Atlantic slope, and the last to leave it. Its history, so far as it has not been written, will be briefly alluded to in the following pages.
"The association having been thus organized, it was called into full activity in may 1862, after the Army of the Potomac had made a commencement of its peninsula campaign.
"The battle of Williamsburg, in which several of our regiments participated, filled the hospitals of Baltimore and Fortress Monroe with wounded men; and from this time forward to the close of the war the whole energies of the association have been taxed to their utmost limits.
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