{"value"=>"<p>The USSC’s Document Bureau served as the main distributor of USSC publications including their published series of numbered and lettered documents, the Sanitary Bulletin, Sanitary Reporter, circulars, and other publications and printed matter, including writings not published by the USSC. Operations began in the Washington Office, around the fall of 1861. The Bureau moved to the New York Office at the end of October 1863 and was housed there through the spring of 1865. Publications were distributed from New York to other USSC departments and offices which, in turn, would distribute them to individuals.</p> <p>The Document Bureau was reorganized and relocated to the Central Office in Washington in June 1865. Document distribution operations returned to New York at the end of 1865, with a document clerk operating under the Historical Bureau into April 1866. The Historical Bureau continued to handle publication requests after that date.</p> <p>A Supply Bureau was also created in Washington in 1865, which fulfilled requests for printed material (mostly forms, stationary, and cards), and office and other supplies for USSC departments. Document Bureau personnel also staffed the Supply Bureau and some Document Bureau requisition forms are interfiled with supply requisitions.</p> <p>William S. Sampson, Jr., Charles Bellows and Richard Falconer were document clerks in the original Washington bureau. Document clerks in New York included Jonathan Woods, Elisha Smith, and Thomas Reddish. James J. Brooks and Thomas Reddish were clerks in the reorganized Document Bureau begun in Washington in June 1865. Reddish returned to New York at the end of 1865 and continued document distribution work until April 1866.</p> <p>After October 1864, the Sanitary Bulletin was primarily distributed by the Canvassing and Supply Department in Philadelphia.</p>"}