childhood and youth passed in Richmond, Va.--Her
relatives Members of the Society of Friends--Her early Hospital labors--
President of the Women's Soldiers' Aid Society of Cincinnati--Her appeal
to the citizens of Cincinnati to organize a Sanitary Fair--Her efforts
to make the Fair a success--The magnificent result--Subsequent labors in
the Sanitary Cause--Fair for Soldiers' Families in December, 1864--
Labors for the Freedmen and Refugees--In behalf of fallen women. 617-620

DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTH.

Dr. M. M. Marsh appointed Medical Inspector of Department of the South--
Early in 1863 he proceeded thither with his wife--Mrs. Marsh finds
abundant work in the receipt and distribution of Sanitary Stores, in the
visiting of Hospitals--Spirit of the wounded men--The exchange of
prisoners--Sufferings of our men in Rebel prisons--Their self-sacrificing
spirit--Supplies sent to the prisoners, and letters received from
them--The sudden suspension of this benevolent work by order from
General Halleck--The sick from Sherman's Army--Dr. Marsh ordered to
Newbern, N. C., but detained by sickness--Return to New York--The
"Lincoln Home"--Dr. and Mrs. Marsh's labors there--Close of the Lincoln
Home. 621-629

ST. LOUIS LADIES' UNION AID SOCIETY.

Organization of the Society--Its officers--Was the principal Auxiliary
of Western Sanitary Commission--Visits of its members to the fourteen
hospitals in the vicinity of St. Louis--The hospital basket and its
contents--The Society's delegates on the battle-fields--Employs the
wives and daughters of soldiers in bandage rolling, and subsequently on
contracts for hospital and other clothing for soldiers--Its committees
cutting, fitting and examining the work--Undertakes the special diet
kitchen of the Benton Barracks Hospital--Establishes a branch at
Nashville--Special Diet Kitchen there--Its work for the Freedmen and
Refugees--Sketches of its leading officers and managers--Mrs. Anna L.
Clapp, a native of Washington County, N. Y.--Resides in Brooklyn, N. Y.,
and subsequently in St. Louis--Elected President of Ladies' Union Aid
Society at the beginning of the war, and retains her position till its
close--Her arduous labors and great tact and skill--She organizes a
Refugee Home and House of Industry--Aids the Freedmen, and assists in
the proper regulation of the Soldiers' Home--Miss H. A. Adams, (now Mrs.
Morris Collins)--Born and ed