A Body of "Truly Scientific Work": The U.S. Sanitary Commission and the Elaboration of Race in the Civil War Era

During the Civil War, the U.S. Sanitary Commission was much more than a philanthropic soldier-relief organization. It also engaged in what commission president Henry Bellows called "truly scientific work," work that Bellows believed was the commission's main chance at "being valu...

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