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and made the bandages. There were no others. There was no drug supply company. They made the drugs. They made the creams. They made the ointments and unguents which were used for the healing of wounds. They packed the pellets in the medicines. They did all that kind of thing. There was very much done in the Civil War that depended tremendously on the activities of local people. It was wretchedly organized, as nearly as one can tell now.

I think that impulse to help out is nearly always there. Of course by the time First World War came along, the whole of life was so much more well organized and so much more complicated in its organization that even the conduct of a war was more complicated. There were more things that had to be done in a certain way. The business of recruiting, making out papers, typing out copies of papers and so on had to be done and thousands of women volunteered for that, who in the Civil War wouldn't have been required for it because such things weren't being done.

We has this complication also of our being at war with a foreign country and having many people in this country who were either recent immigrants or directly descended from relatively recent immigrants. They had to be treated as citizens and yet there had to be a certain care and supervision over that relationships.