Excerpt from The American Association for the Relief of the Misery of Battle Fields: Letter of Rev. Henry W. Bellows, D. D., President, to M. J. Henri Dunant, Secretaire Du "Comite Internationale De Secours Aux Militaires Blesses" For four years it had in active service a Field Relief Corps, varying from one hundred to seven hundred chosen men. It has ministered constantly to the needs of the two hundred General Hospitals, (with their beds, ) and to thousands of Regimental Hospitals. It has thus distributed clothing and supplies to the value of not less than fifteen million of dollars, collected through the agency of not less than seven thousand organized Aid Societies scattered through the loyal States. 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.