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Original 1861 U.S. Sanitary Commission report by J. S. Newberry, M.D., Associate Secretary, documenting the condition of Union troops and the Commission’s operations in the Mississippi Valley during the first year of the Civil War.
Newberry reports on a field of approximately 250,000 enlisted men and examines the practical conditions affecting their health and survival, including camp sites, drainage, tents and ventilation, malaria, sickness and mortality, hospital stores, transportation, and the work of Soldiers’ Aid Societies. The report provides unusually detailed contemporary evidence of military medicine and camp sanitation at the beginning of the war.
Issued as Sanitary Commission No. 36. Institutional bibliographies identify the original edition as Cleveland, Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., 1861, 48 pages.
Details
Author: J. S. Newberry, M.D. (John Strong Newberry)
Title: Report on the Condition of the Troops, and the Operations of the Sanitary Commission in the Valley of the Mississippi
Series: Sanitary Commission No. 36
Publisher/Printer: Fairbanks, Benedict & Co.
Place: Cleveland, Ohio
Date: 1861
Pagination: 48 pages
Format: Printed pamphlet
Dimensions: Approximately 5 3/4 × 8 5/8 inches
Condition
Original printed self-wrappers with wear and separation along the spine, though the pamphlet remains together. Toning, scattered spotting and staining, edge wear, and small chips and tears, including wear to the final leaf. Manuscript notation to front. Interior text remains clean and readily legible overall. Please review photographs for condition.
