A GROUP OF SANITARY COMMISSION RESOLUTIONS AND REPORTS FOR JUNE 1861 - FEB. 1863

A collection of 42 pamphlets, numbered 20-60 (with a few supplements, and a few numbers lacking) all in original self-wrappers, some untrimmed and unopened. All in very good condition. The Sanitary Commission was a private relief agency created by the U. S. Government in July, 1861 "to assist in the care of sick and wounded soldiers and their dependent families" (Dictionary of American History). Anticipating that the Medical Bureau within the War Department would soon by overwhelmed by the needs of a large army, the U.S. Sanitary Commission was organized with donations from public and private sources to provide supplies to the military and field hospitals, and to send inspections teams to those hospitals to monitor conditions and deliver food, clothing, medicine, bandages, etc., saving soldiers from "the consequences of exposure, malaria, unwholesome food, and the other perils of camp life." [see Sanitary Commission publication No.22 below]. The Sanitary Commission was authorized by the War Department, and approved by Pres. Lincoln in June 1861, and it continued operations throughout the Civil War. This group includes: 1. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 20. 22 cm. 2 pp. [Wash. DC(?): July 1861]. Printing Resolutions passed Monday, July 29, 1861, at a meeting of the commission, Treasury Building, Washington [DC]. 2. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 21. 23 cm. 10 pp. [Wash. DC(?): July 1861]. "A Record of Certain Resolutions of the Sanitary Commission, Passed in the Second, Third, and Fourth Sessions." 3. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 22. 23 cm. 8 pp. [NY & Washington: Aug. 13, 1861]. Statement of considerations which led to the appointment of the Sanitary Commission by the War Dept. 4. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 23. 22 cm. 12 pp. [Wash. DC: July 1861]. Printing the report of the Committee appointed to visit the Military General Hospitals in and around Washington, DC, submitted by Wm. H. VanDuren & C.R. Agnew. 5. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 24. 23 cm. 1 p. [NY: Aug. 23, 1861]. George T. Strong, Treasurer, his report on the objects to which the funds of the Commission are applied. 6. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 24 [same number as above, but issued in Washington]. 23 cm. 13 pp. [Wash., DC, Treasury Building: nd]. Frederick Law Olmsted, Secretary. "General Instructions to Sanitary Inspectors." 7. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 25. 23 cm. 1 p., stating that this number reprinted twelve documents [reprint not present here]. 8. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 26. 23 cm. 16 pp. [NP: June 28, 1861]. H.W. Bellows. "Notes of a Preliminary Sanitary Survey of the Forces of the United States, in the Ohio and Mississippi Valley, near Midsummer, 1861." 9. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 27. 24 cm. 8 pp. [NP: Aug. 1861]. J.S. Newberry. "Report on the Sanitary Condition of the U.S. Troops in the Mississippi Valley, During the Month of August." 10. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 28. 24 cm. 8 pp. [NP: nd]. "Advice as to Camping, by the British Government Sanitary Commission." [relating their experiences in the Crimea in the 1850s] 11. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 29. 23 cm. 1 p., stating that No. 29 [not present here] was a special relief report included later in document 35. 12. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 30. 23 cm. 4 pp. [NP: nd]. Printing the report of the committee appointed to look into the subjects of examinations of volunteers and other officers of the Army from civil life, and of reserves. 13. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 31. 23 cm. 21 pp. [NY: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Printers, 1861]. "Report of a Committee Appointed by Resolution of the Sanitary Commission, to Prepare a Paper on the Use of Quinine as a Prophylactic Against Malarious Diseases." 14. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 32. 22 cm. 43 pp. [NY: Wm. C. Bryant & Co., Printers, 1861]. "Report Concerning the Woman's Central Association of Relief at New York, to the U.S. Sanitary Commission at Washington. Oct. 12, 1861." 15. SANITARY COMMISSION NO. 33. 23 cm. 16 pp. [NP: 1862]. List of associate members of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, March 15, 1862. 16. SANITARY COMMISSI.…