Excerpt:
Welcome to what I believe is the only home page on the World Wide Web devoted exclusively to The United States Sanitary Commission 1861 - 1865. Of course, the Sanitary Commission is designed to include the Western and the Northwestern Branches. Also, there were so many Ladies and Soldier's Aid societies that they must be included as well. Even though there was no similiar organization in the South, there were Ladies and Soldier's Aid groups and they should be included. Having information from them available could make for some wonderful scenerios at reenactments.
Annotation:
This site, created by Civil War reenactor Jan Romanovich, is devoted to the history of the United States Sanitary Commission, a government agency created in 1861 to coordinate military personnel war relief efforts. The Commission inspected each field army corps camp, hospital, and transport for cleanliness and efficiency, and it saw to the provision of food, clothing, bandages, hospital furniture, and other supplies for the wounded and administered to the Solders' Homes. The site includes 14 images of commission buildings, badges, and insignia; five patterns for the making of bandages, hospital gowns, and other hospital attire; 25 primary documents pertaining to the commission's work, including official correspondence, poems, handbills, and newspaper advertisements; and eight excerpts from secondary works describing the commission's work at specific battles. Also includes three full-text, contemporary essays by medical doctors about the treatment of venereal disease, amputation procedures, and the relief of pain and administration of anesthetics. It contains a four-work bibliography of Commission reports and histories of the Commission published in the mid-to late-19th century. This site is easy to navigate and provides some unusual material for research in Civil War-era medicine and 19th-century sanitary theories and practices.