l of Representatives from
the principal Aid Societies at Washington--Monthly boxes--The _Federal
principle_--Antietam and Fredericksburg exhaust the supplies--Miss
Louisa Lee Schuyler's able letter of inquiry to the Secretaries of
Auxiliaries--The plan of "Associate Managers"--Miss Schuyler's incessant
labors in connection with this--The set of boxes devised by Miss
Schuyler to aid the work of the Committee on Correspondence--The
employment of Lecturers--The Association publish Mr. George T. Strong's
pamphlet, "How can we best help our Camps and Hospitals"--The Hospital
Directory opened--The lack of supplies of clothing and edibles,
resulting from the changed condition of the country--Activity and zeal
of the members of the Woman's Central Association--Miss Ellen Collins'
incessant labors--Her elaborate tables of supplies and their
disbursement--The Association offers to purchase for the Auxiliaries
at wholesale prices--Miss Schuyler's admirable Plan of Organization for
Country Societies--Alert Clubs founded--Large contributions to the
stations at Beaufort and Morris Island--Miss Collins and Mrs. W. P.
Griffin in charge of the office through the New York Riots in July,
1863--Mrs. Griffin, is chairman of Special Relief Committee, and makes
personal visits to the sick--The Second Council at Washington--Miss
Schuyler and Miss Collins delegates--Miss Schuyler's efforts--The
whirlwind of Fairs--Aiding the feeble auxiliaries by donating an
additional sum in goods equal to what they raised, to be manufactured by
them--Five thousand dollars a month thus expended--A Soldiers' Aid
Society Council--Help to Military Hospitals near the city, and the Navy,
by the Association--Death of its President, Dr. Mott--The news of
peace--Miss Collins' Congratulatory Letter--The Association continues
its work to July 7--Two hundred and ninety-one thousand four hundred and
seventy-five shirts distributed--Purchases made for Auxiliaries,
seventy-nine thousand three hundred and ninety dollars and fifty-seven
cents--Other expenditures of money for the purposes of the Association,
sixty-one thousand three hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty-seven
cents--The zeal of the Associated Managers--The Brooklyn Relief
Association--Miss Schuyler's labors as a writer--Her reports--Articles
in the Sanitary Bulletin, "The Soldiers' Friend," "Nelly's Hospital,"
&c. &c.--The patient and continuous labors of the Committees on
Correspondence and on Supplies--Ter