My story of the war: a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion . or Attractions — At last, Men catch the Fair Mania —Their varied Gifts — Opening Inaugural Procession — Captured rebelFlags borne along — School Children in Carriages and Omnibuses — Con-valescent Soldiers from Hospitals — Procession of Farm Wagons, withVegetables — Procession halts on the Court House Lawn — Firing ofthirty-four Guns announces the Opening of the Fair. HE continued need of mone
My story of the war: a woman's narrative of four years personal experience as nurse in the Union army, and in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion . or Attractions — At last, Men catch the Fair Mania —Their varied Gifts — Opening Inaugural Procession — Captured rebelFlags borne along — School Children in Carriages and Omnibuses — Con-valescent Soldiers from Hospitals — Procession of Farm Wagons, withVegetables — Procession halts on the Court House Lawn — Firing ofthirty-four Guns announces the Opening of the Fair. HE continued need of money for the pur-chase of comforts and necessaries for thesick and wounded of our army, had sug-gested to the loyal women of the North-west many and various devices for the raisingof funds. Every city, town, and village hadhad its fair, festival, party, picnic, excursion, concert,and regular subscription fund, which had netted moreor less for the cause of hospital relief, according tothe population, and the amount of energy and patri-otism awakened. But the need of money for thissacred purpose still continued. Our brave men werestill wrestling with the Southern rebelhon, which, 409. 410 CONTINUED NEEDS OE THE HOSPITALS. though oft-times checked, was not conquered. Thehospitals whose wards were vacated by death, or re-covery of their patients, were speedily refilled bynew faces which disease had rendered pallid, andnew forms shattered by cannon-shot or was necessary to continue to pour down sanitarysupplies for the comfort and care of the suifering-soldiers, whose well-being, at that time, lay so nearthe hearts of all loyal men and women. Since themost valuable sanitary supplies could only be ob-tained with money, the ingenuity of women wastaxed to the utmost to raise funds. The expenses of the Northwestern Sanitary Com-mission had been very heavy through the summer of1863, and every means of raising money had seemedto be exhausted. At last, Mrs. H
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