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Plattenburg, Alfred W., fl. 1862 to Alfred P. Putnam

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04633 Author/Creator: Plattenburg, Alfred W., fl. 1862 Place Written: St. Louis, Missouri Type: Broadside Date: 2 April 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : address Height: 30.4 cm, Width: 21.4 cm Order a Copy

Plattenburg, an agent working for the Western Sanitary Commission, sends Reverend Putnam a report of his mission to deliver hospital stores to Union troops fighting in Arkansas and Missouri. His report is printed on the same page with the orders he received to undertake the journey. To encourage donations to the Commission, he states "I am fully convinced that no army was (so far as provision for the wounded was concerned,) ever sent into the field in such destitute condition as ours ... Could the kind and sympathizing men and women of our loyal States, who place these abundant contributions at your command, but see and realize the thrill of joy with which they were received by the suffering ones ... "

Plattenburg, Alfred W., fl. 1862
Putnam, A. P. (Alfred Porter), 1827-1906

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