r own
hands, for three months. During this period, no reasonable wish of an
invalid ever went ungratified.

This Society also did a considerable work for the freedmen--and the
white refugees, in connection with the Western Sanitary Commission. On
the formation of the Freedmen's Relief Society, this part of their work
was transferred to them.

We have no means of giving definitely the aggregate receipts and
disbursements of this efficient Association. They were so involved with
those of the Western Sanitary Commission, that it would be a difficult
task to separate them. The receipts of the Commission were seven hundred
and seventy-one thousand dollars in money, and about three millions five
hundred thousand dollars in supplies. Of this sum we believe we are not
in the wrong in attributing nearly two hundred thousand dollars in cash,
and one million dollars in supplies to the Ladies' Union Aid Society,
either directly or indirectly.

Believing that the exertions of the efficient officers of the Society
deserve commemoration, we have obtained the following brief sketches of
Mrs. Clapp, Miss Adams, (now Mrs. Collins), Mrs. Springer, and Mrs.
Palmer.

Among the earnest and noble women of St. Louis, who devoted themselves
to the cause of their country and its heroic defenders at the beginning
of the great Rebellion, and whose labors and sacrifices were maintained
throughout the struggle for national unity and liberty, none are more
worthy of honorable mention, in a work of this character, than MRS. ANNA
L. CLAPP.

She was distinguished among those ladies whose labors for the Charities
of the war, and whose presence in the Hospitals, cheered and comforted
the soldiers of the Union, and either prepared them for a tranquil and
happy deliverance from their sufferings, or sent them back to the field
of battle to continue the heroic contest until success should crown the
victorious arms of the nation, and give peace and liberty to their
beloved country.

The maiden name of Mrs. Clapp was Wendell, and her paternal ancestors
originally emigrated from Holland. She was born in Cambridge, Washington
county, New York, and was educated at Albany.

For three years she was a teacher in the celebrated school of Rev.
Nathaniel Prime, at Newburgh, New York. In the year 1838, she was
married to Alfred Clapp, Esq., an enterprising merchant, and lived for
several years in New York City, and Brooklyn, where she became an active
member of