uses by the disloyal State government, under Claib.
Jackson, and all the teachers, who were from New England, were dismissed
from their situations, at the close of the term in 1861. Miss Adams, of
course, was included in this number, and the unjust proscription only
excited more intensely the love of her country and its noble defenders,
who were already rallying to the standard of the Union, and laying down
their lives on the altars of justice and liberty.

In August, 1861, the Ladies' Union Aid Society, of St. Louis, was
organized. Miss Adams was present at its first meeting and assisted in
its formation. She was chosen as its first secretary, which office she
filled with untiring industry, and to the satisfaction of all its
members, for more than three years.

In the autumn of 1863, her only brother died in the military service of
the United States. With true womanly heroism, she went to the hospital
at Mound City, Illinois, where he had been under surgical treatment,
hoping to nurse and care for him, and see him restored to health, but
before she reached the place he had died and was buried. From this time
her interest in the welfare of our brave troops was increased and
intensified, and there was no sacrifice she was not willing to undertake
for their benefit. Moved by the grief of her own personal bereavement,
her sympathy for the sick and wounded of the army of the Union, was
manifested by renewed diligence in the work of sending them all possible
aid and comfort from the ample stores of the Ladies' Union Aid Society,
and the Western Sanitary Commission, and by labors for the hospitals far
and near.

The duties of Miss Adams, as Secretary of the Ladies' Union Aid Society,
were very arduous.

The Society comprised several hundred of the most noble, efficient and
patriotic women of St. Louis. The rooms were open every day, from
morning to night. Sanitary stores and Hospital garments were prepared
and manufactured by the members, and received by donation from citizens
and from abroad, and had to be stored and arranged, and given out again
to the Hospitals, and to the sick in regimental camps, in and around St.
Louis, and also other points in Missouri, as they were needed. Letters
of acknowledgement had to be written, applications answered, accounts
kept, proceedings recorded, information and advice given, reports
written and published, all of which devolved upon the faithful and
devoted Secretary, who was ever a