ar patients none
died. One soldier, a Swede, was found in the street in the last stages
of exhaustion and suffering, and died before the morning following his
admission. He bore about him evidences of education and gentle birth,
but he could not speak English, and carried with him into another world
the secret of his name and identity. He had no disease, but the
foundations of his life had been sapped by the irritation caused by
filth and vermin.

As at the South, in the services of Mrs. Marsh here, there was a great
disproportion between their showiness and their usefulness. She pursued
her quiet round of labors, the results of which will be seen and felt
for years, as much as in the present. Her kind voice, and pleasant smile
will be an ever living and delightful memory in the hearts of all to
whom she ministered during those long hours of the nation's peril, in
which the best blood of her sons was poured out a red libation to
Liberty.

After the close of the Lincoln Home, Mrs. Marsh continued to devote
herself to suffering soldiers and their families, making herself notably
useful in this important department of the nation's work.

SAINT LOUIS LADIES' UNION AID SOCIETY.

This Society, the principal Auxiliary of the Western Sanitary
Commission, and holding the same relation to it that the Women's Central
Association of Relief in New York, did to the United States Sanitary
Commission had its origin in the summer of 1861. On the 26th of July, of
that year, a few ladies met at the house of Mrs. F. Holy, in St. Louis,
to consider the propriety of combining the efforts of the loyal ladies
of that city into a single organization in anticipation of the conflict
then impending within the State. At an adjourned meeting held a week
later, twenty-five ladies registered themselves, as members of the
"Ladies' Union Aid Society," and elected a full board of officers. Most
of these resigned in the following autumn, and in November, 1861, the
following list was chosen, most of whom served through the war.

President: Mrs. Alfred Clapp; Vice Presidents, Mrs. Samuel C. Davis,
Mrs. T. M. Post, Mrs. Robert Anderson; Recording Secretary, Miss H. A.
Adams; Treasurer, Mrs. S. B. Kellogg; Corresponding Secretary, Miss
Belle Holmes; afterwards, Miss Anna M. Debenham. An Executive Committee
was also appointed, several of the members of which, and among the
number, Mrs. C. R. Springer, Mrs. S. Palmer, Mrs. Joseph Crawshaw, Mrs.
Wa