Report of the Commission Appointed by the President to Investigate the Conduct of the War Department in the War With Spain, 1900, Vol. 7 of 8 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Report of the Commission Appointed by the President to Investigate the Conduct of the War Department in the War With Spain, 1900, Vol. 7 of 8 Chaplain Henry C. McCook then appeared before the commission, and the president thereof read to him the instructions received by the commission from the President of the United States, indicating the scope of the investigation. He was then asked if he had any objections to being sworn, and replied that he had not. He was thereupon duly sworn by General Wilson. By General Beaver: Q. Please give us your name. A. Henry C. McCook. Q. Your address? A. The Manse, 3700 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Q. Pennsylvania? A. Yes, sir; there is no other Philadelphia. Q. Your rank during the war with Spain? A. I was a chaplain. Q. In what regiment? A. Second Pennsylvania Volunteers. Q. Did you have any special service during the war under the direction of the President; and if so, what? A. I was at first detached for duty to visit the camps of the country in connection with the work of the National Relief Commission. I afterwards went to Santiago de Cuba on the same errand, returning on the 5th of August. I visited the President on the 6th, and on the 7th was again detached from service as chaplain of my regiment and sent to Santiago on special duty with the sick, and for other service, including the location and designation of the graves of the dead soldiers. Q. Kindly give us, in your own way, Doctor, what you saw in connection with the National Relief Association in its relation to the troops in the field, and, incidentally, you may say how, when, and where it was founded, and also what you did in connection with the special service for which you were designated by the President. A. Well, of course, my special service designated was in Santiago, and the second expedition there was entirely different from the first, and without any relation with the National Relief Commission. I will take your first question first. The National Relief Commission was founded, I may say, in a measure through my own efforts on the 17th day of April, this year. It was commenced by a movement in my own congregation; and afterwards we procured the names of a number of the leading clergymen of the city, calling a representative meeting of the various churches and the ministers and officers of the churches on April 25. We then organized ourselves into a commission - the National Relief Commission - for the purposes which are set forth in the circular I herewith present. We elected as officers Mr. John H. Converse, president, and Mr. Thomas, the head of the banking firm of Drexel & Co., as treasurer, and an executive committee, of which I was chairman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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