Finding aid for the United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio) Records


Title:
United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio) Records
Repository:
Western Reserve Historical Society
Phone: 216-721-5722
http://www.wrhs.org
Creator:
United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch
Dates:
1842-1878
Bulk dates:
1861-1869
Quantity:
22.00 linear feet (41 containers, 41 oversize volumes, and 1 wrapped package)
Abstract:
The United States Sanitary Commission (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio) was established in 1861 in Cleveland, Ohio, to provide for the physical needs of soldiers by improving camp hygiene and diets, collecting and disbursing hospital stores, inspecting hospitals and other medical facilities, caring for sick and wounded soldiers, registering and burying the dead, building and supporting a soldiers home, and conducting a special relief system and employment service. The collection consists of correspondence, reports, memoranda, receipt, cash, and memoranda books, acknowledgements of equipment received, bank drafts, insurance policies, newspaper clippings, and other papers. Includes invoices and other papers concerning the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair, 1864, and a memoir of Caroline Younglove Abbott concerning the work of the organization.
Identification:
MS 1012
Location:
closed stacks
Language:
The records are in English

History of the United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio)

On April 20, 1861 - one week after the surrender of Fort Sumter at the beginning of the American Civil War- The Cleveland, Ohio, Branch of the United States Sanitary Commission (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio) was organized. It was established and operated entirely by women, including organization president Rebecca Rouse (wife of Benjamin Rouse), vice presidents Mrs. John Shelley and Mrs. William Melhinch, secretary Mary Clark Brayton, and treasurer Ellen F. Terry. The Cleveland Branch was said to have served as a model for the institution of smaller aid societies in other villages and towns. As with its sister organizations, it later operated under the parent United Staes Sanitary Commission, the latter having been established in the spring of 1861 and suggested by the British Sanitary Commission which operated during the Crimean War.

As a whole, the purpose of the Sanitary Commission was to serve as a supplementary service organization, endowed through private subscriptions, to the militarily preoccupied federal government during the Civil War. It did its work through existing government channels and agencies. The Cleveland Branch participated in the many activities of the Commission which were going on within the embattled states and elsewhere througout the country from New England to New Orleans to San Francisco. In the words of Mary Brayton, the Cleveland Branch "was the first permanently organized, one of the first to enter the field, and the last to leave it; which began with a capital of two gold dollars and closed with a cash statement of more than one hundred and seventy thousand dollars [in February, 1864, it held a Sanitary Fair, resulting in the accumulation of $100,000 cash. Sanitary Fairs commonly staged to raise funds in the larger cities.]; which grew from a neighborhood sewing circle to become the representative of five hundred and twenty-five branch organizations, in disbursing hospital stores valued at nearly a million of dollars; which built and supported a Soldiers' Home and conducted a Special Relief system and an Employment Agency which gratuitously collected war claims aggregating three hundred thousand dollars, at a saving to the claimants of over seventeen thousand dollars."

The Cleveland and other Commission Branches improved military camp hygiene and soldiers' diets, inaugurated a field hospital medical inspection, and cared for the sick and wounded soldiers and their dependents by providing ambulance and hospital service. The Commission fed, clothed, lodged, and obtained transportation for, and even compiled directories of, military hospital patients and disabled veterans. The latter information was a beneficial service to families anxious as to the whereabouts of loved ones in military combat and in zones of the interior. The dead were properly cared for, registered, and buried. Numerous letters among this collection addressed to the officers of the Cleveland Branch testify to the families' gratitude. In addition to the "physical comforts" granted to needy soldiers, sailors, and their families, the Commission attempted to uplift its charges morally and intellectually by supplying them with reading matter and "innocent games." Military men were also provided with stationery and free postal service and encouraged to write home frequently.


View the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for the United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch (Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio)


View the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair

Scope and Content

The United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch, Records, 1842-1878 and undated, consist of correspondence, reports, memoranda, receipt, cash, and memoranda books, acknowledgements of equipment received, bank drafts, insurance policies, newspaper clippings, and other papers. Includes invoices and other papers concerning the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair, 1864, and a memoir of Caroline Younglove Abbott concerning the work of the organization.

This collection will be useful to researchers studying the history of Cleveland, Ohio, during and immediately after the American Civil War. Those interested in the history of the United States Sanitary Commission, its Cleveland Branch, and the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio will find this collection useful. Those studying the history of women, and the role of women in philanthropy and charity in Cleveland will find this collection useful. Those studying the history of the Civil War, the soldiers who fought in it, camp life, hospitals and medical care, care of dead soldiers, and interactions between soldiers and their families will find this collection useful. Those studying the philanthropic and charitable activities of Rebecca Rouse, Ellen F. Terry, Mrs. John Shelley, Mrs. William Melhinch, and Mary Clark Brayton will find this collection useful. Those studying the history of veterans' assistance, including employment placement, will find this collection useful.

Statement of Arrangement

The collection has been largely retained in original order, and is roughly arranged by document type and then chronologically.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects:

Soldiers' homes -- Ohio.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Medical care.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- War work.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
United States Sanitary Commission. Cleveland Branch.
Veterans -- Employment -- Ohio.
Veterans -- Medical care -- Ohio.
Women in charitable work -- Ohio.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 1012 United States Sanitary Commission, Cleveland Branch, Records, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Processing Information

Processed by John Large, Jr. in 1962.


Detailed Description of The Collection



Dated and undated manuscript items relating to the work of the United States Sanitary Commission, including an undated memoir of the activities of the Commission. Generally, this material has been arranged chronologically without regard to author or recipient. Aside from letters and memoranda, some lists, vouchers, registers, invoices, and other business documents have been included, 1860-1878; undated

Box 1 / Folder 1
Typescript memoir by Caroline Younglove Abbott concerning the work of the Cleveland Branch of the Commission. This paper was presented before an annual meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic. Note covering letter by the son of Caroline, Gardner Abbott, is dated March 20, 1939, undated




Box 1 / Folder 2
Letters of particular interest. This is a selected group of correspondence which may have a special significance for an understanding of the work of the Commission. Note letters from Major-General Rosecrans and Colonel Granville Moody, October 1862-March 1865




Box 1 / Folder 3
Dated manuscript items, February 1860-December 1861




Box 1 / Folder 4
Dated manuscript items, January-July 1862




Box 1 / Folder 5
Dated manuscript items, August-December 1862




Box 1 / Folder 6
Dated manuscript items, 1863




Box 1 / Folder 7
Dated manuscript items, 1864




Box 1 / Folder 8
Items relating to articles loaned for the benefit of the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair held at Cleveland, Ohio (for additional material on the Fair, see Container 10, Folder 6), February 1864




Box 1 / Folder 9
Dated manuscript items, August 1865




Box 1 / Folder 10
Dated manuscript items, September-December 1865




Box 2 / Folder 1
Dated manuscript items, January-February 1866




Box 2 / Folder 2
Dated manuscript items, March-May 1866




Box 2 / Folder 3
Dated manuscript items, June-August 1866




Box 2 / Folder 4
Dated manuscript items, September-December 1866




Box 2 / Folder 5
Dated manuscript items, January-April 1867




Box 2 / Folder 6
Dated manuscript items, May-December 1867




Box 2 / Folder 7
Dated manuscript items, 1868




Box 2 / Folder 8
Dated manuscript items, 1869




Box 2 / Folder 9
Dated manuscript items, 1870-1873




Box 3 / Folder 1
Undated manuscript items, mostly correspondence, reports, memoranda, and fragments relating to the work of the Commission, undated




Box 3 / Folder 2-6
Undated manuscript items, undated





Reports and abstracts of reports, 1862-1866

Box 4 / Folder 1
Abstracts of monthly reports, February 1862-December 1864




Box 4 / Folder 2
Weekly and monthly reports of receipts and disbursements of Sanitary stores, 1862




Box 4 / Folder 3
Weekly and monthly reports of receipts and disbursements of Sanitary stores, January-May 1863




Box 4 / Folder 4
Weekly and monthly reports of receipts and disbursements of Sanitary stores, June-December 1863




Box 4 / Folder 5
Weekly and monthly reports of receipts and disbursements of Sanitary stores, undated




Box 4 / Folder 6
Weekly and monthly reports of the Department of Special Relief, Soldiers' Home, Cleveland Branch, December 1864-December 1865




Box 4 / Folder 7
Weekly and monthly reports of the Department of Special Relief, June 1864-April 1866





Acknowledgements of hospital equipment received from the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio central depot, including printed forms and letters, August 1861-1865

Box 5 / Folder 1
Acknowledgements, August-November 1861




Box 5 / Folder 2
Acknowledgements, December 1861




Box 5 / Folder 3
Acknowledgements (including note from Colonel James A. Garfield, 42nd Ohio Volunteers, Camp Buell, Paintville, Kentucky, dated February 19, 1862: "In behalf of my regiment, please accept thanks), January-February 1862




Box 5 / Folder 4
Acknowledgements, March 1862




Box 5 / Folder 5
Acknowledgements, April-May 1862




Box 5 / Folder 6
Acknowledgements, June-August 1862




Box 5 / Folder 7
Acknowledgements, September-October 1862




Box 5 / Folder 8
Acknowledgements, November-December 1862




Box 6 / Folder 1
Acknowledgements, January-April 1863




Box 6 / Folder 2
Acknowledgements, May-October 1863




Box 6 / Folder 3
Acknowledgements, October-December 1863




Box 6 / Folder 4
Acknowledgements, January-April 1864




Box 6 / Folder 5
Acknowledgements, May-August 1864




Box 6 / Folder 6
Acknowledgements, September-December 1864




Box 6 / Folder 7
Acknowledgements, 1865





Military claims and official discharge documents and correspondence (this material has no special arrangement, though an attempt has been made to keep items together which pertain to separate individuals), ca. 1861-1865

Box 7 / Folder 1-5
Military claims, official discharge documents, and correspondence, ca. 1861-1865





Bank drafts, tickets, and passes, 1861-1865

Box 8 / Folder 1-6
Bank drafts, 1861-1865




Box 9 / Folder 1-2
Bank drafts, 1861-1865




Box 9 / Folder 3-6
Tickets and passes, 1861-1865





Miscellany relating to the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861-1866; undated

Box 10 / Folder 1
Insurance policies and a deed of mortgage; the mortgage deed is dated August 1866 "From Michael Johnson and Frances Johnson to Mary Richards"; three of the policies date from November 1864-November 1865, insuring the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1864-1866




Box 10 / Folder 2-4
Account registers and roll sheets (the material in these folders has no particular arrangement), 1861-1865




Box 10 / Folder 5
Unidentified index cards bearing names and addresses; these are arranged alphabetically by the first letter of the surname and, though discovered among the Sanitary Commission material, do not appear to be contemporary to the Civil War era, undated




Box 10 / Folder 6
Printed material, including blank forms, small signs, broadsides, envelopes, pamphlets, and other printed intes; note especially the material on the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair of February 1864 (for additional material on the Fair, see Container 1, Folder 8), undated




Box 10 / Folder 7
Newspaper clippings relating to the activities of the Commission (mounted and unmounted material), undated




Box 10 / Folder 8
Mailing wrappers for the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, undated





Bound volumes of correspondence to the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio from Ohio branch societies of the United States Sanitary Commission (some loose documents are to be found scattered among the bound material), 1861-1865

Box 11 / Volume 1
Adamsville to Annapolis, ca. 1861-1865




Box 11 / Volume 2
Austinburgh to Bowling Green, ca. 1861-1865




Box 11 / Volume 3
Braceville to Champion, ca. 1861-1865




Box 12 / Volume 1
Chagrin Falls to Cuba, New York, ca. 1861-1865




Box 12 / Volume 2
Conneaut to Euclid, ca.1861-1865




Box 12 / Volume 3
Fairfield to Greenfield, ca. 1861-1865




Box 13 / Volume 1
Green Hill to Hiram, ca. 1861-1865




Box 13 / Volume 2
Holmesville to Kingsville, ca. 1861-1865




Box 13 / Volume 3
Kinsman to Mantua, ca. 1861-1865




Box 14 / Volume 1
Mansfield to Middletown, ca. 1861-1865




Box 14 / Volume 2
Milan to New Berlin, ca. 1861-1865




Box 14 / Volume 3
Newburgh to Northfield, ca. 1861-1865




Box 15 / Volume 1
North Lawrence to Orangeville, ca. 1861-1865




Box 15 / Volume 2
Orrville to Poland, ca. 1861-1865




Box 15 / Volume 3
Polk to Ruggles, ca. 1861-1865




Box 16 / Volume 1
Salineville to Springfield, ca. 1861-1865




Box 16 / Volume 2
Springfield (West) to Trumbull, ca. 1861-1865




Box 16 / Volume 3
Twinsburgh to Wells Corners, ca. 1861-1865




Box 17 / Volume 1
Wellsville to Windham, ca. 1861-1865




Box 17 / Volume 2
Windsor to Youngsville, Pennsylvania, ca. 1861-1865





Bound volumes of correspondence from other cities (non-Ohio), departments and districts to the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, ca. 1861-1865

Box 18 / Volume 1
Surgeons and agents, Western Virginia and Kanawha District, ca. 1861-1865




Box 18 / Volume 2
Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Buffalo, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Columbus, Ohio (also includes New York, New York), ca. 1861-1865




Box 18 / Volume 3
Ohio Relief Association of the Potomac & C., ca. 1861-1865




Box 19 / Volume 1
Surgeons and field agents, Kentucky and Tennessee, ca. 1861-1865




Box 19 / Volume 2
Central Offices of the United States Sanitary Commission, New York, New York; Washington, D. C.; and Louisville, Kentucky; and Woman's Central Association, New York, ca. 1861-1865




Box 19 / Volume 3
St. Louis, Mississippi District and Kansas Department, ca. 1861-1865





Bound volumes of correspondence of claimants to the Free Claim Agency of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1865-1869

Box 20 / Volume 1
Correspondence, May-August 1865




Box 20 / Volume 2
Correspondence, June-July 1866




Box 21 / Volume 1
Correspondence, August-September 1866




Box 21 / Volume 2
Correspondence, September-October 1866




Box 22 / Volume 1
Correspondence, November-December 1866




Box 22 / Volume 2
Correspondence, January-March 1867




Box 23 / Volume 1
Correspondence, March-September 1867




Box 23 / Volume 2
Correspondence, December 1867-February 1869





Bound correspondence and other documents between United States federal government agencies and the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1861-1867

Box 24 / Volume 1
Paymaster General, Quartermaster General, Surgeon General, and Miscellaneous (includes index), June 1865-January 1867




Box 24 / Volume 2
Paymaster General, January-June 1867




Box 24 / Volume 3
Paymaster General, June-July 1867




Box 24 / Volume 4
Auditors of the Treasury Department (includes index), August 1865-July 1867




Box 25 / Volume 1
Letters of Darious Forbes and W. F. Bascom (includes index), May 1865-April 1867




Box 25 / Volume 2
Telegrams and letters from shipping agents, September 1861-July 1866




Box 25 / Volume 3
Adjutant Generals (includes index), September 1865-September 1866




Box 25 / Volume 4
Commissioner of Pensions, August 1865-March 1867





Bound volumes of correspondence received relating to the work of the Department of Special Relief, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, ca. 1861-1865

Box 26 / Volume 1-3
Hospital Directory, Employment Agency, and Claim Agency, ca. 1861-1865





Bound volumes of correspondence from camps, hospitals, and homes in Ohio; clerks and field agents of the United States Sanitary Commission; miscellaneous letters and testimonials; and Laws and Information of the Free Claim Agency of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, ca. 1861-1869

Box 27 / Volume 1
Camps and hospitals in Ohio and the Soldiers' Home, Columbus, Ohio, ca. 1861-1869




Box 27 / Volume 2
United States Sanitary Commission Clerks and Field Agents, ca. 1861-1869




Box 27 / Volume 3
Miscellaneous letters and testimonials, ca. 1861-1969




Box 28 / Volume 1
Laws and Information relating to the activities of the Free Claim Agency, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio; includes correspondence, printed documents, and newspaper clippings, 1865-1866




Box 28 / Volume 2
Letter copy book with index, July 1866-July 1867





Bound record volumes of varying in size and depth, arranged according to size in a series of boxes (smaller volumes preceding); several of the record books contain loose documents inserted among the volumes; descriptions of each volume are general, 1858-1870; undated

Box 28 / Volume 3
Record book of aid rendered to individual soldiers by the Cleveland Branch, United States Sanitary Commission, 1870




Box 29 / Folder 1
Paper bound account and nine memoranda booklets, 1858-1870




Box 29 / Folder 2
Four leather bound account booklets, 1863




Box 29 / Folder 3
Five leather bound account, memoranda, and index booklets, 1861-1865




Box 29 / Folder 4
Damaged record book of receipts and expenditures, undated




Box 30 / Volume 1
American Express Company receipt book, 1863




Box 30 / Volume 2
American Express Company receipt book, 1864




Box 30 / Volume 3
American Express Company receipt book, 1864-1865




Box 30 / Volume 4
American Express Company receipt book, 1865




Box 30 / Volume 5
American Express Company receipt book, 1865-1866




Box 30 / Volume 6
American Express Company receipt book, 1866-1867




Box 30 / Volume 7
United States Express Company receipt book, 1864




Box 30 / Volume 8
United States Express Company receipt book, 1864-1865




Box 30 / Volume 9
United States Express Company receipt book, 1867




Box 30 / Volume 10
Merchants Union Express Company receipt book, 1867




Box 30 / Volume 11
Booklet of receipt stubs, 1865




Box 30 / Volume 12
Booklet of receipt stubs, 1866




Box 30 / Volume 13
Booklet of Western Union Telegraph Company receipt stubs, 1864-1865




Box 31 / Volume 1
Hospital stores receipt book, 1865




Box 31 / Volume 2
Hospital stores receipt book, undated




Box 31 / Volume 3
Hospital stores receipt book, 1865




Box 31 / Volume 4
Book of receipt stubs, undated




Box 31 / Volume 5
Journal of returned work, 1864




Box 32 / Volume 1
Cash account book containing record of expenses of the Soldiers' Lodging Room, 1862-1865




Box 32 / Volume 2-3
Memoranda book containing entries and data on individual soldiers, ca. 1865-1878




Box 32 / Volume 4-5
Memoranda book, 1861-1862




Box 32 / Volume 6
Book of subscription lists, 1862-1864




Box 32 / Volume 7
Book of receipt memoranda, 1861




Box 32 / Volume 8
Memoranda and account book, undated




Box 33 / Volume 1
Book containing "List of boxes" sent away, with contents noted, 1861-1862




Box 33 / Volume 2-3
"Sarah Mahan" account book, 1864-1865




Box 33 / Volume 4
"Emma L. Miller" account book, 1865




Box 33 / Volume 5
Record of "packages received", 1862-1865




Box 33 / Volume 6
Book of receipts, 1864




Box 33 / Volume 7
Book of receipts, 1864-1866




Box 33 / Volume 8
Book of receipts, 1865-1866




Box 33 / Volume 9
Book of receipt stubs, undated




Box 34 / Volume 1
Register A - Special Relief; book of data on aid rendered to individual soldiers, 1863-1864




Box 34 / Volume 2
Register A - Special Relief; book of data on aid rendered to individual soldiers, 1864-1865




Box 34 / Volume 3
Register C - Special Relief; book of data on aid rendered to individual soldiers, 1865




Box 34 / Volume 4-6
Book of receipt stubs, 1866




Box 35 / Volume 1
Book of receipt stubs, 1866




Box 35 / Volume 2-3
Book of receipt stubs, 1866-1867




Box 35 / Volume 4
Book of receipt stubs, 1867




Box 35 / Volume 5
Book of receipt stubs, 1867-1868




Box 35 / Volume 6
Book of receipt stubs, 1868-1869




Box 36 / Volume 1
Record of packages received, 1862




Box 36 / Volume 2
Record of packages received, 1862-1863




Box 36 / Volume 3
Record of packages received, 1863




Box 36 / Volume 4
Record of packages received, 1863




Box 36 / Volume 5
Record of "sum of pages in cash book", 1863




Box 36 / Volume 6
Book of shipping receipts, 1864-1865




Box 36 / Volume 7
Record of receipts and disbursements, 1864-1865




Box 36 / Volume 8
Index to Bounty Discharges - Depot Hospital Register; daily register of the Soldiers' Home established in April 1862 in the Union Depot Building by the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, Cleveland, 1862-1866




Box 37 / Volume 1
Memoranda book containing data on individual soldiers, belonging to W. F. Bascom, claim agent of the United States Sanitary Commission (volume is undated except for individual entries), undated




Box 37 / Volume 2
Index to Bascom Book (apparently has no connection to the Bascom book in Container 37, Volume 1), undated




Box 37 / Volume 3
Record of "list of boxes" and contents, 1863-1865




Box 37 / Volume 4
Record of aid rendered to individual soldiers, 1865




Box 37 / Volume 5
Record of aid rendered to individual soldiers, 1866




Box 38 / Volume 1
Book of returned receipts of the Free Claim Agency, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1866




Box 38 / Volume 2
Book of returned receipts of the Free Claim Agency, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1865-1867




Box 39 / Volume 1
Book of returned receipts of the Free Claim Agency, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1866-1867




Box 39 / Volume 2
Book of returned receipts of the Free Claim Agency, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1867




Box 39 / Volume 3
Book of returned receipts of the Free Claim Agency, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1867-1869




Box 40 / Volume 1
Alphabetical listing of officers of auxiliary societies (listed according to location), undated




Box 40 / Volume 2
Book of financial data, 1864-1865




Box 40 / Volume 3
Cash report of Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1861-1866




Box 40 / Volume 4
Book containing "list of boxes" and contents, 1862-1863




Box 40 / Volume 5
Book of data, generally unidentified; includes list of articles, names, and monetary figures, undated




Box 40 / Volume 6
Book of data apparently relating to the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair, 1864?




Box 40 / Volume 7
Book containing data, including soldiers' names and minutes pertaining to the organization of the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair, 1864




Box 40 / Volume 8
Record of sums owed to the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, and other data, 1862




Box 41 / Volume 1
Record of daily receipts of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1861




Box 41 / Volume 2
Record of Donations received, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1861-1862




Box 41 / Volume 3
Record of Donations received, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1862




Box 41 / Volume 4
Record of receipts and disbursements, 1861-1866




Box 42 / Volume 1
Parcel of oversized items, mostly sheets of statistical data relating to the work of the United States Sanitary Commission, 1861-1869





Bound record volumes not housed in containers; volumes are arranged according to appearance, size, and depth with few exceptions; volumes are very generally described; loose manuscript items occasionally to be found inserted in volumes, 1842-1870; undated

Volume 1-2
Employer's Register, Bureau of Information and Employment, 1866




Volume 3
Applicant's Register, Bureau of Information and Employment, 1865-1866




Volume 4
Applicant's Register, Bureau of Information and Employment, 1866




Volume 5-6
Applicant's Register, Bureau of Information and Employment, undated




Volume 7
Box lists, 1864




Volume 8
Box lists, 1865




Volume 9
Receipt memoranda, 1864-1868




Volume 10
"General Street Commissioners Book, Cleveland City, 1836", 1851-1862




Volume 11
Alphabetical name list, unidentified, undated




Volume 12
Journal of unidentified data, 1842-1845




Volume 13
Book of data, some alphabetically arranged, 1861-1864




Volume 14
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings entitled "Dr. J. S. Newberry [Newberry was prominent in the work of the Commission]", with items from Cleveland and other newspapers on the work of the Sanitary Commission (not mounted in chronological order), ca. 1860-1869




Volume 15
Receipts of claimants, 1865-1866




Volume 16
Receipts of claimants, 1867




Volume 17
Treasurer's accounts for the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1861-1870




Volume 18
Financial data (receipts?), 1866-1867




Volume 19
Alphabetical list of names, apparently of a personal nature, undated




Volume 20
Alphabetical list of names, apparently female, undated




Volume 21
Record of Ohio Soldiers Buried in the National Cemetery at Chattanooga, Tennessee, undated




Volume 22
Record of Abstracts of the Supply Department, pertaining to monthly reports, 1861-1866




Volume 23
Record of Disbursements of stores, Supply Department, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1861-1864




Volume 24
Record of Disbursements of stores, Supply Department, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1864-1865




Volume 25
Record book relating to Special Relief, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1862-1865




Volume 26
Record book relating to Special Relief, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1865-1866




Volume 27
Record book containing data on the Special Relief Department, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1865-1868




Volume 28
Scrapbook relating to the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio (mostly newspaper clippings and other printed items), 1861-1863




Volume 29
Scrapbook relating to the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio (mostly newspaper clippings and other printed items), 1863-1864




Volume 30
Scrapbook relating to the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio (mostly newspaper clippings and other printed items), 1864-1870




Volume 31
Scrapbook of printed reports of the branches of the United States Sanitary Commission, ca. 1860-1869




Volume 32
Mounted invoices and other items relating to the Northern Ohio Sanitary Fair, February 1864




Volume 33
Mounted invoices and other business documents relating to the work of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1864-1869




Volume 34
Receipted bills, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1861-1864




Volume 35
Receipted bills, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1861-1866




Volume 36
Data of the Free Claim Agency, Cleveland, Branch, 1866-1867




Volume 37
Volume contains one mounted voucher slip, 1865




Volume 38
Record of receipts and disbursements of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1862-1863




Volume 39
Record of receipts and disbursements of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1864-1865




Volume 40
Record of receipts and disbursements of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, undated




Volume 41
Record of receipts and disbursements of the Supply Department, Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, 1863-1864