. The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the Great Rebellion: containing the story of the campaign; an account of the "Great uprising of the people of state," and other articles upon subjects associated with the early war period .. . a bill was passed which provided homes for dis-abled veterans of the army and navy. Henry Wilson,when vice president, told me that to Miss Baker wasdue the honor of originating that bill, getting it beforeCongress, and lobbying it through successfully. It wasa great thing to do. It was an amazing work. * * *Both Miss Adams and Miss Baker were remarkable,an
. The First Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers in the Great Rebellion: containing the story of the campaign; an account of the "Great uprising of the people of state," and other articles upon subjects associated with the early war period .. . a bill was passed which provided homes for dis-abled veterans of the army and navy. Henry Wilson,when vice president, told me that to Miss Baker wasdue the honor of originating that bill, getting it beforeCongress, and lobbying it through successfully. It wasa great thing to do. It was an amazing work. * * *Both Miss Adams and Miss Baker were remarkable,and very prominent women during the war. I knewthem both, and worked with them, as with They were grand women. Late in 1888 there passed away Miss Melinda Ran-kin, who was the first Protestant missionary to was born of excellent parentage of Scotch origin,March 21, 1811, in Littleton, N. H., to which townher grandfather came from Glasgow, and where thefamily occupied a prominent position. After losses ofproperty of their father in 1840, Miss Rankin and twosisters venturously went West hoping to earn money inteaching, to replace the family fortunes, which theydid, making their fathers last days full of peace. The. u FIRST NE W HAMPSHIRE. 277 sisters married, but Melinda continued to teach, andwas in Mississippi when the Mexican war closed. Amost interesting account of her feeling herself called ofGod to go to Mexico, and her subsequent experiences,has been written by the Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D., butobviously may not be recounted here. Teachini»; a sue-cessful school which she had founded at ^Brownsville,Texas, directly opposite Matamoras in Mexico, whenthe civil war began, she was commanded in the courseof time, by a Presbyterian minister, to give the keys ofher seminary up to him because she was not in sym-pathy with the Southern Confederacy, and was in com-munication with a country called the United however remained until she was about to be
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