Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-19
What Becomes Of the Money Raised for the
Sanitary Commission

The cash which has actually reached the
treasury OF the United Stl.es sanitary UummIs-
sion Washington, has III three years announced
10 about one million dollars, ol which the Pa
chc coast has gwen three quarters. IL would
be we'll tor those ON the Atlautlc coast, who
sometimes question cur economy, to consider
,his TACT fIltesulh-slGteenths ol this amount
is expended Tor supplies aud transportation the
other sixteenth goes into the support Of It's
homes, It's lodges. iJs machinery of contribution,
lts hcspildl directory, and hospital and camp
Inspection. supplies purchased are such as
country homes do nos supply-such as condensed
mix, by the ton beet sGocx wines and sprlrs
uy the barrel crackers and iarlnaceous ioUd, oy
nc ton tea, coffee, and sugar, by the chest
ana hogshead crutches, bed rests, mattresses
und betsteads by the hundred. Cargoes ol Ice,
potatoes, oulons, picked cabbagts SOUR ctout,
lemons, oranges, vegetables by car loads anti
scurbdtcs ana tonlcs
The boards Of the Sanitary Commission con.
sIstlng Of president, treasurer, medical commit
tee, und sta ding Committee, give their services
and their time gratuitOusly. lhey receive moth
ug. / heir sT.yelling ,xlenses alone are partly
refunded them, aud these arv trhng, except the
q Sc Of one Or two wnc 90 frequently ON tours
OF observation. Tue commission supports TWEEN
ty Ly. soldiers homes or lodges, scattered over
ho whole field OF war, from New Orleans to
Washington, iuclu ins V.cksburg Memphis,
CAIRO, Chattanooga, Nashville, LOulsvllle, v ash
ingtOG, &c. Twenty ythTee ht Ddred soldiers per
day are taken care vi IN these homes. Multiply
; 800 hy 800 aud you Will get idlnl idea of
the numOei Of men thus Ieleyed. Three Otner
agencies 10 secure the soldiers rights are sus.
t.Ined by the commission. |. A claim agency
to secure his bounty. 2 A pc SION agency.
j. \ back-pay agency. Often so 100 back
pay Is secured M one day A hospital dlrectCry
ls also sustained, by winch the whereabouts OF
the slek men i, determined. IL cUss O00
per yeir to maintain 1t, and is worth mill,on
# human anxleiy eau be estimated IN money.
The commission also has sixty hospital lnspec-
tors Constantly 10 the field. They alsO have
hospital cars Vn the NAN roads east aud west,
aoug which sick soldiers are carried. They also
supply the hospitals with daily car loads Of
supplps from the prime pal markets. The cost
OF distributing supp1s is lees than three ler
C Mt. The battle service OF the COMMISSION re-
quires large funds aud supplies AT MuIirees-
boIo', Anuelam, Gettysburg, Chattanooga, Nicks-
burg, PJIt Hudson. sudden and vast demands
were made. Fihy thousand dollars would not
euycr the outlay the first two weeks alter our
great battles A Gettysburg 1t was seventy hive
thousand dollars. The average COST Is three
dollars aud twenty cents to each man, often, as
AZ gettysburg, ten dollars per man. Are these
expenses extravdgant, Considering the blessing
dispensed by the variety aud amount vi the Saul
tary Commission. Their agents, two hundred
IN number, receive some more, some lese, aserug-
ing Just two dollars per day, or less inan Ordi-
sand dollars per mOnth-ior this vast human
machinery ol the COMMISSION, stretching from
L xas t. be Potomac, and from before Cnaries-
ton to Kansas.