Hospital Ships Of The Sanitary Commission
Frederick Law Olmsted, the executive director of the United States Sanitary Commission set up a system of hospital ships for wounded and sick soldiers in the American Civil War. It was a prvate agency the cooperated closely with the U.S. Army.
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