Letter of Formation of Y.M.C.A. Special Relief Corps for Sick and Starved Soldiers at Annapolis

by Civil War, George May Powell, Y M. C.

$350 · Offered by Back Creek Books

1865. Single sheet folded in half to 7 3/4 x 9 3/4 Original handwritten letter dated March 27, 1865, from the Rooms of the Y.M.C.A. in Washington, DC. The letter organizes a Special Relief Corps of short term nurse volunteers standing ready to travel from Washington, DC to Annapolis to assist in the care of soldiers in the U.S. General Hospital there. The text of the letter is as follows: The undersigned hereby organize ourselves

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