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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 8 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 2 0 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 22: prisoners.-benevolent operations during the War.--readjustment of National affairs.--conclusion. (search)
its historian in the Rev. Lemuel Moss, of the University of Pennsylvania, who made a complete record of its origin and work in a volume entitled Annals of the United States Christian Commission. This volume contains 750 octavo pages, with several illustrations. That organization had its origin in the Young Men's Christian Association of New York City, and was first suggested by Vincent Colyer, See page 809, volume II. an earnest worker in Vincent Colyer useful fields, who, with Frank W. Ballard, and Mrs. Dr. Harris, who represented the Ladies' Aid Society of Philadelphia, went to Washington City immediately after the first battle of Bull Run, July, 1861. to do Christian labor in the hospitals and camps there. Mr. Colyer remained. The Government, through General Scott, gave him every facility for visiting the Union camps, and even a permission to go to the Confederate camps if they would allow him to do so. He distributed Bibles, tracts, and hymn-books among the soldiers, hel