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Sidney Brooks letter to Sarah Godfrey Brooks, 1864 July 21
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Creator: Brooks, Sidney, 1813-1887
Addressee: Brooks, Sarah Godfrey, 1814-1886
Creator: Amherst College. Class of 1841. Brooks
Addressee: Brooks, Sarah Godfrey, 1814-1886
Creator: Amherst College. Class of 1841. Brooks
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1864-07-21
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1 item (4 pages) ; 21 x 13 cm
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Sidney Brooks letter to his sister Sarah Godfrey Brooks in which he writes regarding his work as a delegate of the United States Christian Commission in the American Civil War. He writes about gathering the supplies in the storeroom and mentions three delegates who came from Amherst College: one student, Professor Seelye (Julius Hawley Seelye), Professor Hitchcock (Edward Hitchcock, Jr.), and Professor Tyler's (William S. Tyler) son. He discusses his journey to Carver Hospital and his duties there in his twenty assigned wards with twenty-four cots each, most of them occupied. He notes that he has not yet found one wounded man who has not received religious conversation civilly and cordially, and he has not yet found one person who is a decided unbeliever. He also discusses a specific talk he had with a sergeant the day before.
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English
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