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Sidney Brooks letter to Susan Brooks, 1864 July 22
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Creator: Brooks, Sidney, 1813-1887
Addressee: Brooks, Susan, 1814-1886
Creator: Amherst College. Class of 1841. Brooks
Addressee: Brooks, Susan, 1814-1886
Creator: Amherst College. Class of 1841. Brooks
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1864-07-22
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1 item (4 pages) ; 21 x 13 cm
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Sidney Brooks letter to his wife Susan Brooks in which he writes regarding the hospitals in which he has been working as a delegate of the United States Christian Commission in the American Civil War. Sidney provides a description of the hospitals including Carver Hospital to which he is assigned. He compares them to locations in Harwich in his descriptions of their size, provides their numbers of cots and wounded men, and notes particular parts of the hospital grounds. He also compares locations of buildings in relation to one another in Harwich in order to provide an image of the locations of the hospitals in Washington (D.C.). Sidney describes how the hospitals are laid out and equipped and says that the wards are really the most pleasant places to be found in the hot weather, though he notes that "you see ghastly sights, of course." He also writes regarding the wounded soldiers in the hospitals and how they receive him eagerly as a delegate of the Christian Commission.
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English
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