at Chicago, September, 1863,
and June, 1865, the Michigan Branch of the Sanitary Commission, rendered
essential service. Their receipts from the second Fair, were thirteen
thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents
less three thousand one hundred and thirty-seven dollars and sixty-five
cents expenses, and this balance was expended in the maintenance of the
Soldiers' Home, and caring for such of the sick and disabled men as were
not provided for in the Hospitals. Of the aggregate amount contributed
by this branch to the relief of the soldiers in money and supplies, we
cannot as yet obtain a detailed estimate. We only know that it exceeded
three hundred thousand dollars.

WOMEN'S PENNSYLVANIA BRANCH OF U. S. SANITARY COMMISSION.

Philadelphia was distinguished throughout the war by the intense and
earnest loyalty and patriotism of its citizens, and especially of its
women. No other city furnished so many faithful workers in the
hospitals, the Refreshment Saloons, the Soldiers' Homes and
Reading-rooms, and no other was half so well represented in the field,
camp, and general hospitals at the "front." Sick and wounded soldiers
began to arrive in Philadelphia very early in the war, and hospital
after hospital was opened for their reception until in 1863-4, there
were in the city and county twenty-six military hospitals, many of them
of great extent. To all of these, the women of Philadelphia ministered
most generously and devotedly, so arranging their labors that to each
hospital there was a committee, some of whose members visited its wards
daily, and prepared and distributed the special diet and such delicacies
as the surgeons allowed. But as the war progressed, these patriotic
women felt that they ought to do more for the soldiers, than simply to
minister to those of them who were in the hospitals of the city. They
were sending to the active agents in the field, Mrs. Harris, Mrs.
Husband, Mrs. Lee, and others large quantities of stores; the "Ladies'
Aid Association," organized in April, 1861, enlisted the energies of one
class, the Penn Relief Association, quietly established by the Friends,
had not long after, furnished an outlet for the overflowing sympathies
and kindness of the followers of George Fox and William Penn; and "the
Soldiers' Aid Association," whose president, Mrs. Mary A. Brady,
represented it so ably in the field, until her incessant labors and
hardships brought on disea