Miscellany, 1864.

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Miscellany, 1864.

Includes a list of subscribers and contributions from the Village of Southampton to the Sanitary Fair held in Brooklyn to aid the U. S. Sanitary Commission, which was kept by Colonel B.H. Fostes. Also includes a set of 29 handwritten notes by prominent Americans which were auctioned at the Sanitary Fair with proceeds going to aid the U. S. Sanitary Commission. The notes were collected by Gertrude Lefferts Vanderbilt, a writer and authority on Kings County history. Also included is the Sanitary Fair publication, THE DRUM BEAT, 1864 and a floor plan of the fair, 1864.

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United States Sanitary Commission

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The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War. It operated across the North, raised an estimated $25 million in Civil War era revenue (assuming 1865 dollars, $422.66 million in 2021) and in-kind contributions to support the cause, and enlisted thousands of volunteers. The president was Henry Whit...

Vanderbilt, Gertrude Lefferts, 1824-

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The Vanderbilt family originated from the Netherlands and settled in Flatbush, Kings County, New York in the late seventeenth century; Jan Aersen van der Bilt is the first Vanderbilt documented in 1640. The Vanderbilts whose material appears in this collection include Jeremias Vanderbilt (b. 1695), Jacob Vanderbilt (b. 1692), John Vanderbilt (b. 1752), and John Vanderbilt (b. 1794), among others. Jeremias Vanderbilt (b. 1695) was the child of Aris Janse van der Bilt and ...

Fostes, B. H.

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Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair, 1864.

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