fe of Colonel Crafts J. Wright, was among the first hospital
visiters of the city, and was unwearied in her efforts to provide
comforts for the soldiers in the general hospitals of the city as well
as for the sick or wounded soldiers of her husband's regiment in the
field. Mrs. C. W. Starbuck, Mrs. Peter Gibson, Mrs. William Woods and
Mrs. Caldwell, were also active in visiting the hospitals and gave
largely to the soldiers who were sick there. Miss Penfield and Mrs.
Elizabeth S. Comstock, of Michigan, Mrs. C. E. Russell, of Detroit, Mrs.
Harriet B. Dame, of Wisconsin and the Misses Rexford, of Illinois, were
remarkably efficient, not only in the hospitals at home, but at the
front, where they were long engaged in caring for the soldiers.

From Niagara Falls, N. Y., Miss Elizabeth L. Porter, sister of the late
gallant Colonel Peter A. Porter, went to the Baltimore Hospitals and for
nineteen months devoted her time and her ample fortune to the service of
the soldiers, with an assiduity which has rendered her an invalid ever
since.

In Louisville, Ky., Mrs. Menefee and Mrs. Smith, wife of the Bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Church for the diocese of Kentucky, were the
leaders of a faithful band of hospital visitors in that city.

Boston was filled with patriotic women; to name them all would be almost
like publishing a directory of the city. Mrs. Lowell, who gave two sons
to the war, both of whom were slain at the head of their commands, was
herself one of the most zealous laborers in behalf of the soldier in
Boston or its vicinity. Like Miss Wormeley and Miss Gilson, she took a
contract for clothing from the government, to provide work for the
soldiers' families, preparing the work for them and giving them more
than she received. Her daughter, Miss Anna Lowell, was on one of the
Hospital Transports in the Peninsula, and arrived at Harrison's Landing,
where she met the news of her brother's death in the battles of the
Seven Days, but burying her sorrows in her heart, she took charge of a
ward on the Transport when it returned, and from the summer of 1862
till the close of the war was in charge as lady superintendent, of the
Armory Square Hospital, Washington. Other ladies hardly less active were
Mrs. Amelia L. Holmes, wife of the poet and essayist, Miss Hannah E.
Stevenson, Miss Ira E. Loring, Mrs. George H. Shaw, Mrs. Martin Brimmer
and Mrs. William B. Rogers. Miss Mary Felton, of Cambridge, Mass.,
served for a long