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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 6: Essex County. (search)
hree thousand dollars, independent of what was termed sanitary aid. During each year of the war, and especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas, large quantities of provisions, hospital stores, cordials, &c., were sent forward to different camps and hospitals in and around Washington and elsewhere, the money value of which it is impossible now to compute. In February, 1863, the Ladies' Sanitary Aid Society was formed, with Mrs. W. C. Richards president, Miss M. L. Newhall secretary, and Miss A. E. Ladd treasurer. This society had five hundred and eighty members, more than one hundred of whom were active workers until the close of the war. The receipts in cash the first year were $2,292.02; and their total cash receipts were $3,778.81, all of which was properly expended for the benefit of the soldiers and their families. The amount of work done by the society in making under-clothing, bandages, lint, preserves, and delicacies for the sick and wounded, we cannot accurately state or ev