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"Bearing the People's Love": The U.S. Sanitary Commission in Virginia, 1864"
Formed in the first days of the Civil War, the the United States Sanitary Commission was composed of civilian volunteers devoted to the health of Union soldiers, through medical education, food deliveries, and even medical care near the battlefield. It was called by one admirer “the great artery bearing the people’s love to the people’s army.” National Park Service Ranger Maddie Hollis' free talk will detail how Commission members, some working near Rural Plains, cared for the multitudes of wounded soldiers felled at the Battle of Totopotomy Creek and elsewhere during the 1864 Overland Campaign.
Join us on the lawn of the Shelton House -- picnic suppers encouraged! (Rain location: Enon United Methodist Church, 6156 Studley Road)
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