"In transitu" Quotes from Famous Books
... military points, and with each considerable sub-division of the army. Before the close of the war the entire West was embraced in one great System of agencies for the production and distribution of supplies, and the care of sick and wounded on the battle-field, in hospital or in transitu. The magnitude of the work of the Sanitary Commission at the West may be inferred from the fact that there were at one time over five thousand societies tributary to it in the loyal States of the Northwest—that hospital stores of the value of over $5,000,000 were distributed ... — Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin |