Helping Wounded Soldiers and Anxious Families: The United States Sanitary Commission and the Origin of Modern Philanthropy in the United States
Journal: DigitalCommons (California Polytechnic State University)
Year: 2020

This thesis explores an aspect of the American Civil War, the federally authorized civilian effort to assist the Medical Department of the U. S. Army, known as the United States Sanitary Commission. This work covers its active years, 1861-1865, and the Commission leaders based in Washington, D.C., and New York City. It also pays attention to women throughout the North who populated some 7000 Ladies Aid Societies established to help support the Commission. The leaders and the women shared the sam