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The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
his war — to wit: $15 to the Life Insurance Company, to feed the soldiers; $5 worth of clothing, consisting of shirts, drawers, handkerchiefs, &c; $5 in cash to Mrs. Spence, and $10 to the Gunboat Association, $5 of which an old woman (free) who Mary Ann has in her employment as a washer woman, has given; but her generous employer, regarding the act as almost giving away her bread refunded her the money, thus contributing thirty dollars out of her daily wages of twenty-three and one-third cents,Ann has in her employment as a washer woman, has given; but her generous employer, regarding the act as almost giving away her bread refunded her the money, thus contributing thirty dollars out of her daily wages of twenty-three and one-third cents, to fight the battles of her country. Can such generosity be too highly estimated? Why the chambermaids and old washerwomen will defend Richmond! Mary Ann says she will increase it to the sum of $50 as soon as the gunboat is put under contract."