war, would not do anything
for the sick and wounded. Many of the "Orthodox Friends" afterwards
joined it, as well as considerable numbers from other denominations, and
it proved itself a very efficient body. Mrs. Rachel S. Evans was its
President, and Miss Anna P. Little and Miss Elizabeth Newport its active
and hard-working Secretaries, and Miss Little doubtless expressed the
feeling which actuated all its members in a letter in which she said
that "while loyal men were suffering, loyal women must work to alleviate
their sufferings." The "Penn Relief" collected supplies to an amount
exceeding fifty thousand dollars, which were almost wholly sent to the
"front," and distributed by such judicious and skilful hands as Mrs.
Husband, Mrs. Hetty K. Painter, Mrs. Mary W. Lee, and Mrs. Anna Carver.

"THE SOLDIERS' AID ASSOCIATION," was organized on the 28th of July,
1862, mainly through the efforts of Mrs. Mary A. Brady, a lady of West
Philadelphia, herself a native of Ireland, but the wife of an English
lawyer, who had made his home in Philadelphia, in 1849. Mrs. Brady was
elected President of the Association, and the first labors of herself
and her associates were expended on the Satterlee Hospital, one of those
vast institutions created by the Medical Department of the Government,
which had over three thousand beds, each during those dark and dreary
days occupied by some poor sufferer. In this great hospital these ladies
found, for a time, full employment for the hearts and hands of the
Committees who, on their designated days of the week, ministered to
these thousands of sick and wounded men, and from the depot of supplies
which the Association had established at the hospital, prepared and
distributed fruits, food skilfully prepared, and articles of hospital
clothing, of which the men were greatly in need. Those cheering
ministrations, reading and singing to the men, writing letters for them,
and the dressing and applying of cooling lotions to the hot and inflamed
wounds were not forgotten by these tender and kind-hearted women.

But Mrs. Brady looked forward to work in other fields, and the exertion
of a wider influence, and though for months, she and her associates felt
that the present duty must first be done, she desired to go to the
front, and there minister to the wounded before they had endured all the
agony of the long journey to the hospital in the city. The patients of
the Satterlee Hospital were provided with a