Caring for soldiers and freedmen
United States Christian Commission on the Battlefield, Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion. (New York: Harpers & Brothers Publishers, 1868).
Throughout the war Presbyterian men and women worked to provide physical, emotional, and educational support to soldiers and freedmen. Both at home and on the front lines, they collected and distributed supplies, provided medical assistance, and offered spiritual guidance, education, and religious tracts. They joined in the efforts of their presbyteries and congregations, various agencies, including the United States Christian Commission (USCC) and the United States Sanitary Commission (USSC), and organized their own soldiers' and ladies' aid societies.
