s
the true meaning of her work. This is her golden opportunity, when
by look, and tone, and movement she may call up, as if by magic,
the pure influences of home, which may have been long banished by
the hard necessities of war. Quietly and rapidly the supplies are
handed out for Companies A, B, C, etc., first from one wagon, then
the other, and as soon as a regiment is completed the men hurry
back to their tents to receive their share, and write letters on
the newly received paper, or apply the long needed comb, or mend
the gaping seams in their now 'historic garments.' When at last the
supplies are exhausted, and sunset reminds us that we are yet many
miles from home, we gather up the remnants, bid good by to the
friendly faces which already seem like old acquaintances, promising
to come again to visit new regiments to-morrow, and hurry home to
prepare for the next day's work.

"Every day, from the first to the twentieth day of June, our little
band of missionaries has repeated a day's work such as I have now
described. Every regiment, except some which were sent home before
we were able to reach them, has shared alike in what we had to
give. And I think I speak for all in saying that among the many
pleasant memories connected with our sanitary work, the last but
not the least will be our share in the Field Relief.

"Yours respectfully,
"MRS. STEPHEN BARKER."

AMY M. BRADLEY

Very few individuals in our country are entirely ignorant of the
beneficent work performed by the Sanitary Commission during the late
war; and these, perhaps, are the only ones to whom the name of Amy M.
Bradley is unfamiliar. Very early in the war she commenced her work for
the soldiers, and did not discontinue it until some months after the
last battle was fought, completing fully her four years of service, and
making her name a synonym for active, judicious, earnest work from the
beginning to the end.

Amy M. Bradley is a native of East Vassalboro', Kennebec County, Maine,
where she was born September 12th, 1823, the youngest child of a large
family. At six years of age she met with the saddest of earthly losses,
in the death of her mother. From early life it would appear to have been
her lot to make her way in life by her own active exertions. Her father
ceased to keep house on the marriage of his older da