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Executive Committee of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Left to right: Dr. William Holme Van Buren, George T. Strong, Rev. Henry Whitney Bellows, Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew and Prof. Wolcott Gibbs, between 1855 and 1865. [The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency for the support of sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal/Northern/Union Army) during the American Civil War).