d, their
departure, to be safe, must be sudden.

Early in the morning of the 1st of June word was brought them that there
was no time to lose. Dr. Grier's life was threatened. A vessel was ready
to sail and they must go. Hurriedly they left a home endeared to them by
long years of residence; Dr. Grier's valuable library, a choice
collection of paintings and other treasures of art and affection were
all abandoned to the ruthless mob, and were stolen or destroyed. Leaving
their breakfast untouched upon the table, they hastened to the vessel,
and by a circuitous route, at last reached Philadelphia in safety, and
were welcomed by kind and sympathizing friends. Mrs. Grier's patriotism
was of the active kind, and she was very soon employed among the sick
and wounded soldiers who reached Philadelphia after Bull Run and Ball's
Bluff, or who were left by the regiments hurrying to the front at the
hospitals of the Volunteer and Cooper Shop Refreshment Saloons. With the
establishment of the larger hospitals in January, 1862, Mrs. Grier
commenced her labors in them also, and remained busy in this work till
June, 1862, when at the request of the surgeon in charge of one of the
Hospital Transports, she went to White House, Virginia, was there when
McClellan made his "change of base," and when the wounded were sent on
board the transport cared for them and came on to Philadelphia with
them, and resumed her work at once in the hospitals. The battles of
Pope's campaign and those of South Mountain and Antietam, filled the
land with desolate homes, and crowded not only the hospitals, but the
churches of Philadelphia with suffering, wounded and dying men, and Mrs.
Grier like most of the philanthropic ladies of Philadelphia found
abundant employment for heart and hands. Her zeal and faithfulness in
this work had so favorably impressed the ladies who met at the Academy
of Music to organize the Women's Branch of the Commission that she was
unanimously chosen its President.

Mrs. Clara J. Moore, formerly a Miss Jessup, of Boston, is the wife of
Mr. Bloomfield H. Moore, a large manufacturer of Philadelphia. She is a
woman of high culture, a poetess of rare sweetness, and eminent as a
magazine writer. She possessed great energy, and a rare facility of
correspondence. In her days of Hospital work, she wrote hundreds of
letters for the soldiers, and in the organization of the Women's Branch,
of which she was one of the most active promoters, she