Excerpt from Report of the Superintendent of the New England Soldiers Relief Association, December, 1862 The preamble to the Plan of Organization, de clares the purposes of the Association to be: To aid and care for all sick and wounded soldiers passing through the City of New York on their way to or from the War. It was established by Sons of New England resident in the City of New York. The formal organization was completed April 3d, 1862, and on April 8th the building No. 19 - 1 Broadway was thrown open to the reception of beneficiaries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.