Existing comment:
US Sanitary Commission Supply Depot ca July 9, 1863:
The Sanitary Commission took over the Fahnestock Brothers store at Baltimore and West Middle Streets for a relief supply warehouse. Dr HH Douglas noted that their mass of supplies piled up. "... till the sidewalk was monopolized and even the street encroached upon." The goods seen here sustained thousands of wounded and helped feed the local population whose food stores were exhausted by the demands of soldiers of both armies. |