United States Sanitary Commission

Angels of Mercy Women and Civil War Pharmacy THE UNITED STATES SANITARY COMMISSION... 

Charles J. Stille, History of the United States Sanitary Commission (Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott, 1866), pp. 57-60. 

Allen Nevins preface to William Quentin Maxwell, Lincoln s Fifth Wheel The Political History of the United States Sanitary Commission (New York Longmans, Green, 1956), p. viii. 

It had been noted that the so-called miasmatic fevers generally prevailed from mid-summer to the start of winter. See John T. Metcalfe, Miasmatic Fevers in Military Medical and Surgical Essays Prepared for the United States Sanitary Commission, edited by William A. Hammond (Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott, 1864), pp. 207-234. 

On women s role during the war see George C. Rable, Civil Wars Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana University of Illinois, 1989) and on the United States Sanitary Commission, in which women played such an important role, see William Quentin Maxwell, Lincoln s Fifth Wheel The Political History of the United States Sanitary Commission (New York Longmans, Green, 1956). 

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