port 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 time with her friend, Miss Anna Lowell, at Armory Square Hospital, Washington. Miss Louise M. Alcott, daughter of A. B. Alcott, of Concord, Mass., and herself the author of a little book on "Hospital Scenes," as well as other works, was for some time an efficient nurse in one of the Washington hospitals. Among the leaders in the organization of Soldiers' Aid Societies in the smaller cities and towns, those ladies who gave the impulse which during the whole war vibrated through the souls of those who came within the sphere of their influence, there are very many eminently deserving of a place in our record. A few we must name. Mrs. Heyle, Mrs. Ide and Miss Swayne, daughter of Judge Swayne of the United States Supreme Court, all of Columbus, Ohio, did an excellent work there. The Soldiers' Home of that city, founded and sustained by their efforts, was one of the best in the country. Mrs. T. W. Seward, of Utica, was indefatigable in her efforts for maintaining in its highest condition of activity the Aid Society of that city. Mrs. Sarah J. Cowen was similarly efficient in Hartford, Conn. Miss Long, at Rochester, N. Y., was the soul of the efforts for the soldier there, and her labors were warmly seconded by many ladies of high standing and earnest patriotism. In Norwalk, Ohio, Mrs. Lizzie H. Farr was one of the most zealous coadjutors of those ladies who managed with such wonderful ability the affairs of the Soldiers' Aid Society of Northern Ohio, at Cleveland. To her is due the origination of the Alert Clubs, associations of young girls for the purpose of working for the soldiers and their families, which rapidly spread thence over the country. Never flagging in her efforts for the soldiers, Mrs. Farr exerted a powerful and almost electric influence over the region of which Norwalk is the centre. Equally efficient, and perhaps exerting a wider influence, was the Secretary of the Soldiers' Aid Society at Peoria, Ill., Miss Mary E. Bartlett, a lady of superior culture and refinement, and indefatigable in her exertions for raising supplies for the soldiers, from the beginning to the close of the war. The Western Sanitary Commission had no more active auxiliary out of St. Louis, than the Soldiers' Aid Society of Peoria. Among the ladies who labored for the relief of the Freedmen, Miss Sophia Knight of South Reading, Mass., deserves a place. After spending five or six months in Benton Barracks Hospital (May to October, 1864) she went to Natchez, Miss., and engaged as teacher of the Freedmen, under the direction of the Western Sanitary Commission. Not satisfied with teaching the colored children, she instructed also the colored soldiers in the fort, and visited the people in their homes and the hospitals for sick and wounded colored soldiers. She remained in Natchez until May, 1865. In the following autumn she accepted an appointment from the New England Freedman's Aid Society as teacher of the Freedmen in South Carolina, on Edisto Island, where she remained until July, 1866; she then returned to Boston, where she is still engaged in teaching freedmen. But time and space would both fail us were we to attempt to put on record the tithe of names which memory recalls of those whose labors and sacrifices of health and life for the cause of the nation, have been not less heroic or noble than those of the soldiers whom they have sought to serve. In the book of God's remembrance their names and their deeds of love and mercy are all inscribed, and in the great day of reckoning, when that record shall be proclaimed in the sight and hearing of an assembled universe, it will be their joyful privilege to hear from the lips of the Supreme Judge, the welcome words, "Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye did it unto me." INDEX OF NAMES OF WOMEN WHOSE SERVICES ARE RECORDED IN THIS BOOK. ABERNETHY, Mrs. C., 528. Adams, Miss H. A.. 74, 79, 630, 636, 639. Alcott, Miss Louise M., 793. Aldrich, Milly, 85. Allen, Mrs. Mary, 790. Allen, Miss Phebe, 502. Allen, Miss Sarah, 459, 788. Anderson, Mrs. Kate B., 737. Anderson, Mrs. Robert, 630, 790. Andrews, Emma, 84. Andrews, Mrs. Mary, 790. Armstrong, Miss, 209. Babcock, Miss Grace, 590. Bacon, Mrs. Elbridge, 463. Bailey, Mrs. Catharine, 737. Baker, Miss Delphine P., 754-759. Ballard, Mrs. M. I., 790. Balustier, Mrs., 301. 732. Barker, Mrs. C. N., 630, 632. Barker, Mrs. C. V.. 791. Barker, Mrs. Stephen, 186, 200-211. Barlow, Mrs. Arabella Griffith, 88, 225- 233. Barnard, Mrs., 664. Barrows, Mrs. Ellen B., 737. Bartlett, Miss Mary E., 794. Bartlett, Mrs. Abner, 84. Barton, Mrs. Sarah A., 790. Barton, Miss Clara Harlowe, 73, 111–132. Beck, Mrs., 157, 159, 485, 713. Bell, Miss Annie, 616. Bell, Miss Susan J., 630, 790. Bellows, Mrs. H. W., 302. Bennison, Mrs. R. H., 791. Bickerdyke, Mrs. Mary A., 74, 163, 165-- 170. 172-186, 209, 512. Biddle, Misses, 644. Bigelow, Mrs. R. M., 738–740. Billing, Mrs. R. K., 738, 739. Billing, Miss Rose M., 460, 738, 739, 742. Bird, Miss, 590. Bissell, Miss Lucy J., 788. Bissell, Miss Mary, 616. Blackman, Miss M. A., 429, 430. Blackwell, Miss Emily, 527. Blackwell, Miss Elizabeth. 527, 528, 529. Blanchard. Miss Anna, 600. Botta, Mrs. Vincenzo, 528. Bradford, Miss Charlotte, 153, 301, 316, 731, 732. Bradley, Miss Amy M., 212-224, 301, 316, Brady, Mrs. Mary A., 597, 647-9. Breckinridge, Miss Margaret E., 74, 88, Brendell, Mrs. E. C., 790. Brewster, Mrs., 664. Bridgham. Mrs. S. W., 531. Briminer, Mrs. Martin, 557, 793. Broadhead, Mrs. Bettie, 632, 791. Brownell, Mrs. Kady, 773, 774. Bucklin, Miss Sophronia, 791. Caldwell, Mrs., 792. Campbell, Mrs. John, 790. Campbell, Mrs. Lucy L., 790. Campbell, Miss Valeria. 79, 594, 595. Canfield, Mrs. S. A. Martha, 495. Cary, Miss Mary, 459, 787. Colwell, Mrs. Stephen, 643. Constant, Mrs. Nettie C., 714. Comstock, Mrs. Elizabeth S., 792. Dada, Miss Hattie A., 431-439. Davis, Mrs. G. T. M., 352-356, 666, 680. Debenham, Miss Anna M., 630, 790. Divers, Bridget, 480, 593, 771-773. Dodge, Mrs., 664. Don Carlos, Mrs. Minnie, 780. Dupee, Miss. Mary E., 456, 462, 463, 464. Eaton, Mrs. J. S., 463, 507, 508. Edgar, Mrs. T. D., 791. Edson, Mrs. Sarah P., 440-447. Elkinton, Mrs. Anna A., 737. Elliott, Miss Melcenia, 74, 380–384. Fales, Miss, 791. Farr, Mrs Lizzie H., 793. Field, Mrs. David Dudley, 88. Field, Miss, 737. Field, Mrs. C. W., 528. Fogg, Mrs. Isabella, 463, 506–510. Gage, Mrs. Frances Dana, 683-690. Gilson, Miss Helen L., 71. 73. 80, 81, Glover, Miss Eliza S., 630. Gove, Miss Emily, 459, 788. Graff, Mrs. C., 599. Gray, Mrs. Caroline E., 789. Greble, Mrs. Edwin, 503, 504. Green, Mrs., 736. Grier, Mrs. Maria C., 597-599, 600, 601, 779. Hawley, Mrs. Harriet Foote, 416-419, Lee, Miss Amanda, 480, 486. 737. 513, 713. Hazard, Mrs., 790. Helmbold. Mrs. Eliza, 737. Heyle, Mrs., 793. Hickox. Mrs. J. E., 790. Hicks, Mrs., 791. Hoadley, Mrs. George, 79. Hoes, Mrs. H. F., 713. Hodge, Mrs., 780. Hoge, Mrs. A. H., 74, 79, 178, 561, 562- 576, 580, 583, 585. 589, 610. Holden, Mrs. F. A., 791. Holland, Miss Sarah, 736. Holmes, Mrs. Amelia L., 793. Holmes, Miss Belle, 630. Holstein, Mrs. William H., 251-259. Howe, Miss Abbie J., 458, 465, 466 Howland, Mrs. Eliza W., 301, 324–326. Husband, Mrs. Mary Morris, 157, 287- Ide, Mrs., 793. Ives, Mrs. John, 791. Jackson. Mrs. Margaret A., 607. McCabe, Miss. 791. McClintock, Miss Clara, 790. McClintock, Miss Marian. 790. McCracken, Miss Sarah F., 790. McEwen, Mrs. Hetty M., 764-766, 767. McNair, Miss Carrie C., 790. Mann, Miss Maria R., 697-703. May, Miss Abby W., 79, 554-557. Mendenhall, Mrs. Elizabeth S., 79, 494, Menefee. Mrs.. 792. Merrill, Mrs. Eunice D., 457, 462. |