[497] to the Sanitary Commission, The Union-Aid Society at St. Louis, to hospitals at Alexandria, &c. The total number of articles forwarded during the war, as can now be ascertained, is 7,967. This does not include bandages, rolls of cotton, linen, and flannel, some of which accompanied nearly every contribution; nor wine, jellies, and other delicacies so necessary in a hospital, of which every box contained more or less. A similar society existed in South Dedham, of whose labors we regret we have been unable to obtain a statement. A soldiers' ‘Memorial Hall’ has been erected by the town of Dedham, which was appropriately dedicated Sept. 29, 1868. A splendid copy of Stuart's painting of Washington, in Faneuil Hall, by Alvan Fisher, Esq., of Dedham, was given by his widow, Mrs Lydia E. Fisher, ‘to hang in its appropriate place in the Memorial Hall.’
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[497] to the Sanitary Commission, The Union-Aid Society at St. Louis, to hospitals at Alexandria, &c. The total number of articles forwarded during the war, as can now be ascertained, is 7,967. This does not include bandages, rolls of cotton, linen, and flannel, some of which accompanied nearly every contribution; nor wine, jellies, and other delicacies so necessary in a hospital, of which every box contained more or less. A similar society existed in South Dedham, of whose labors we regret we have been unable to obtain a statement. A soldiers' ‘Memorial Hall’ has been erected by the town of Dedham, which was appropriately dedicated Sept. 29, 1868. A splendid copy of Stuart's painting of Washington, in Faneuil Hall, by Alvan Fisher, Esq., of Dedham, was given by his widow, Mrs Lydia E. Fisher, ‘to hang in its appropriate place in the Memorial Hall.’
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