r concerning it is that the colored people will not be able from
their limited resources to sustain it. It is her wish to prepare her
scholars to become teachers of other colored schools, a work she is
amply and remarkably qualified to do, and one in which she would be
sustained by philanthropic aid, if the facts were known to those who
feel the importance of all such efforts for the education and
improvement of the colored people of this country, in the new position
upon which they have entered as free citizens of the republic.

Among the gratifying results which Miss Mann has found in this work of
instruction among the colored people are the rapid improvement she has
witnessed among them, the capacity and eagerness with which they pursue
the acquisition of knowledge, the gratitude they have evinced to her,
and the consciousness that she has contributed to their welfare and
happiness.

As a noble, self-sacrificing woman, devoted to the service of her
fellow-beings, and endowed with the best attributes of human nature,
Miss Mann deserves the title of a Christian philanthropist, and her life
and labors will be remembered with gratitude, and the blessing of him
that was ready to perish, and of those who had no helper, will follow
her all the remainder of her days.

SARAH J. HAGAR

It is due to the memory of this noble young woman that she should be
included in the record of those sainted heroines who fearlessly went
into the midst of danger and death that they might minister to the poor
and suffering freedmen, whom our victorious arms had emancipated from
their rebel masters, and yet had left for a time without means or
opportunity to fit themselves for the new life that opened before them.
To this humane service she freely devoted herself and became a victim to
the climate of the lower Mississippi, while engaged in the arduous work
of ministering to the physical wants and the education of the freed
people, who in the winter and spring of 1864, had gathered in camps
around Vicksburg, and along the Louisiana shore.

Miss Hagar was the eldest daughter of Mrs. C. C. Hagar, who also was one
of the army of heroic nurses who served in the hospitals of St. Louis
during the greater part of the war. For many months they had served
together in the same hospital, and by their faithfulness and careful
ministrations to the sick and wounded soldier had won the highest
confidence of the Western Sanitary Commission, by whose