Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Fitts, Daniel French, 1805-1883. Letter, ca. 1861. ALS, 3 pp.
Call No.
Mss. C F
Content
Fitts writes to Mrs. Edwin P. (Sophia) Hill and the "Ladies of the Soldiers Relief Society" of Haverhill and Bradford, Mass., which organized in 1861. As a representative of the Soldiers Relief Society of Massachusetts, he provides detailed information about the activities of the organization in the military hospitals located in Washington, D.C. He provides guidelines for community level relief societies and encourages them to also support the U. S. Sanitary Commission and the U.S. Christian Commission in their similar efforts to aid sick and wounded Union soldiers.