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Excerpt from A Letter to Mrs. and Other Loyal Women, Touching the Matter of Contributions for the Army, and Other Matters Connected With the War
They are to be reconciled by considering that health is a comparative term. Compared with Euro pean armies in the field, ours is healthy; compared with the rebel army it is probably very healthy but compared with a half million of men at home, it is fearfully unhealthy.
Having seen something abroad of the usual fright ful mortality among soldiers in actual war, and read more; and having seen too the manner in which our volunteers were hurried into the field, I believe that the mortality among them would have been vastly greater but for the existence of the Sanitary Commission.
I believe this after giving due weight to the fact that certain officers sneer at the Commission; and to the really important fact that the season has been uncommonly favorable.
The United States Sanitary Commission, projected and animated by its able and energetic president; organized and directed by its wise and humane secretary, has indeed done a great work in the way of preventing disease; the credit of which is due almost entirely to those officers, and to the zealous inspectors and assistants whom they have employed.
But let us look a little more closely at this matter of army sickness and mortality.
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