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A Report to the Secretary of War of the Operations of the Sanitary Commission, and Upon the Sanitary Condition of the Volunteer Army, Its Medical ... Supplies: December, 1861
Excerpt from A Report to the Secretary of War of the Operations of the Sanitary Commission, and Upon the Sanitary Condition of the Volunteer Army, Its Medical Staff, Hospitals, and Hospital Supplies: December, 1861
These men had each, probably, cost the Government at least one hundred dollars for his pay, rations, clothing, transportation, medicines, &c., making an aggregate of over eighty thousand dollars, absolutely wasted on men who ought never to have been enlisted. Extending the calculation just suggested to the whole army, and for the whole period since the commencement of the campaign, it seems probable that a million of dollars has been lost by mere neglect of preliminary inspection. This pecuniary loss, however, is small compared with that caused by the dimian tion of efficiency which every corps suffers by the introduction of any considerable number of men unfit for service, constituting, as they do, more than anything else, the impedimenta of the army.
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These men had each, probably, cost the Government at least one hundred dollars for his pay, rations, clothing, transportation, medicines, &c., making an aggregate of over eighty thousand dollars, absolutely wasted on men who ought never to have been enlisted. Extending the calculation just suggested to the whole army, and for the whole period since the commencement of the campaign, it seems probable that a million of dollars has been lost by mere neglect of preliminary inspection. This pecuniary loss, however, is small compared with that caused by the dimian tion of efficiency which every corps suffers by the introduction of any considerable number of men unfit for service, constituting, as they do, more than anything else, the impedimenta of the army.
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.
112 pages, Paperback
First published September 27, 2015
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