eleven thousand seven hundred and seven meals, and
twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy-three lodgings, at an
entire cost of twenty-seven thousand four hundred and eight dollars and
three cents. No government support was received for this home, and no
rations drawn from the commissary as in most institutions of this kind.

The officers of the society gave daily personal attention to the Home,
directing its management minutely, and the superintendent, matron and
other officials were employed by them.

The society also established a hospital directory for the soldiers of
its territory, and recorded promptly the location and condition of the
sick or wounded men from returns received from all the hospitals in
which they were found; a measure which though involving great labor, was
the means of relieving the anxiety of many thousands of the friends of
these men.

In May, 1865, an Employment Agency was opened, and continued for six
months. Two hundred and six discharged soldiers, mostly disabled, were
put into business situations by the personal efforts of the officers of
the society. The families of the disabled men were cared for again and
again, many of them being regular pensioners of the society.

The surplus funds of the society, amounting June 1st, 1866, to about
nine thousand dollars, were used in the settlement of all war claims of
soldiers, bounties, back pay, pensions, etc., gratuitously to the
claimant. For this purpose, an agent thoroughly familiar with the whole
business of the Pension Office, and the bureaus before which claims
could come, was employed, and Miss Brayton and Miss Terry were daily in
attendance as clerks at the office. Up to August 1st, 1866, about four
hundred claims had been adjusted.

The entire time of the officers of the society daily from eight o'clock
in the morning to six and often later in the evening, was given to this
work through the whole period of the war, and indeed until the close of
the summer of 1866. The ladies being all in circumstances of wealth, or
at least of independence, no salary was asked or received, and no
traveling expenses were ever charged to the Society, though the
president visited repeatedly every part of their territory, organizing
and encouraging the auxiliary societies, and both secretary and
treasurer went more than once to the front of the army, and to the large
general hospitals at Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga, etc., with a
view to obta