- unitid
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{"value"=>"219140", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1862-1865", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1862/1865"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1862
- date_inclusive_end
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1865
- keydate
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1862
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"I. Letters and reports"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>Letters and reports pertain to supplies requested, received, and distributed; area hospitals; relief agents’ activities in the field; cooperation and work with the federal government; general USSC procedures and actions; local battles, wounded soldiers, and military activities; work with refugees; the whereabouts of individual soldiers; soldiers’ bodies; the USSC’s Department of the South (based in South Carolina); yellow fever; assistance for Sherman’s troops starting in Feb 1865; and post-war work with soldiers and former POWs. Also present are a small amount of copies of Inspector J.W. Page’s outgoing correspondence and reports, as well as some bills, telegrams, and testimonials from army doctors about the USSC’s work in North Carolina.</p> <p>Correspondence within the USSC is mostly from the Washington Office (especially J. Foster Jenkins), the Woman’s Central Association of Relief, the New England Woman’s Auxiliary Association, and the Hospital Directory.</p> <p>Letters and reports are roughly chronological.</p>"}
- note
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{"type"=>"did", "value"=>"#114-117, 212-216, 410-444 were listed by the USSC as destroyed; #33-34, 210-211 were not found during processing."}
- date_start
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1862
- date_end
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1865