. Woman's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience . sum should cover all the general amount ofexpenses of the Association in the transaction of a business which,during the year, has involved the receipt or purchase, assorting,cataloguing, marking, packing, storing and final distribution ofnearly half a million of articles, will be no less satisfactory to thedonors of the funds so largely economized for the direct benefitof the soldier, than to those friends of the Association from whoseself-denying, patriotic and indefatigable personal labors, thiseconomy has result
. Woman's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience . sum should cover all the general amount ofexpenses of the Association in the transaction of a business which,during the year, has involved the receipt or purchase, assorting,cataloguing, marking, packing, storing and final distribution ofnearly half a million of articles, will be no less satisfactory to thedonors of the funds so largely economized for the direct benefitof the soldier, than to those friends of the Association from whoseself-denying, patriotic and indefatigable personal labors, thiseconomy has resulted. In the Table of supplies received and distributed from May1st, 1861, to July 7th, 1865, prepared by Miss Collins, the itemof shirts alone amounts to two hundred and ninety-one thousandfour hundred and seventy-five. For four years distribution, purchase of hospital delicacies, andall office expenses, except those of the committee which purchasedmaterial for the aid-societies amounting to seventy-nine thousandthree hundred and ninety dollars and fifty-seven cents, the sum. ivlKS. }vLABLANNE F. STRAX,\N- 537 expended was only sixty-one thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty-seven cents.* How was this accomplished by the Womans Central exceptthrough its band of daily volunteers (the great unnamed) itsdevoted associate managers through whom came an increase ofone hundred and thirty-eight new societies, the generosity of Ex-press companies, the tender self-sacrifice of country-homes, andthe indefatigable labors of the several committees, all of whomfelt it a privilege to work in so sacred a cause. Neither land normoney, nothing less than sentiment and principle, could have pro-duced these results. To the Brooklyn Relief Association the Womans Centralalways felt deeply indebted for supplies. Its admirable President,Mrs. Stranahan, was in close sympathy with the association, oftenpouring in nearly half of the woollen garments it received. The careful dissemina
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