. The new eclectic history of the United States . laced by Dahlgrens, columbiads, and the most improvedrifles, and in naval architecture America surpassed all nations. 582. Sanitary Commissions.—Never had science and humansympathy gained such victories over the horrid brutalities ofwar. The United States Sanitary Commission spent twelve mill-ions of dollars in money and supplies for the relief of the sickand wounded, and the Western Sanitary Commission three mill-ions more. But money could not measure the service ren-dered : the home comforts added to the rough necessaries ofthe military hospi
. The new eclectic history of the United States . laced by Dahlgrens, columbiads, and the most improvedrifles, and in naval architecture America surpassed all nations. 582. Sanitary Commissions.—Never had science and humansympathy gained such victories over the horrid brutalities ofwar. The United States Sanitary Commission spent twelve mill-ions of dollars in money and supplies for the relief of the sickand wounded, and the Western Sanitary Commission three mill-ions more. But money could not measure the service ren-dered : the home comforts added to the rough necessaries ofthe military hospital; the feeding-stations and night lodgingsfor soldiers returning home on sick-leave; the strength im-parted by the assurance that their sufferings were gratefully re-membered. 583. The Christian Commission, also, shared the hardships ofthe march, the trench, the battle-field; and cared for bothbodies and souls. It cheered the sick, comforted the dying,buried the dead. It supplied about five millions in money 344 HISTORY OF THE UNITED and mate-rial. Both Commis-sions continued theirkind offices after the warwas over, providing homesfor disabled soldiers and work for those who needed it. The Work of the Sanitary Commission. 584. Foreign Results of the War.— One sixth part of all thepeople in England depended for their daily bread upon thecotton manufacture, and suffered severely from the blockade(§497) which deprived them of their material for work. Lan-cashire weavers were starving; and neither Egypt nor Indiacould supply cotton enough to give them employment. More-oxer, English manufacturers were injured by the high tariff(§398) which kept their goods out of American markets, and avery strong and bitter feeling against the Union British government, however, resisted all pressure whichwould have carried it into interference in the war. 585. Napoleon III., Emperor of the French, believing that theUnion was already destroyed, sent an army to Mexico,
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