-Extract from
her Final Report--The Boston Sewing Circle and its officers--The Ladies'
Industrial Aid Association of Boston--Nearly three hundred and
forty-seven thousand garments for the soldiers made by the employes of
the Association, most of whom were from soldiers' families--Additional
wages beyond the contract prices paid to the workwomen, to the amount of
over twenty thousand dollars--The lessons learned by the ladies engaged
in this work. 553-559

THE NORTHWESTERN SANITARY COMMISSION.

The origin of the Commission--Its early labors--Mrs. Porter's connection
with it--Her determination to go to the army--The appointment of Mrs.
Hoge and Mrs. Livermore as Managers--The extent and variety of their
labors--The two Sanitary Fairs--Estimate of the amount raised by the
Commission. 560-561

MRS. A. H. HOGE.

Her birth and early education--Her marriage--Her family--She identifies
herself from the beginning with the National cause--Her first visit
to the hospitals of Cairo, Mound City and St. Louis--The Mound City
Hospital--The wounded boy--Turned over for the first time--"They had to
take the Fort"--Rebel cruelties at Donelson--The poor French boy--The
mother who had lost seven sons in the Army--"He had turned his face to
the wall to die"--Mrs. Hoge at the Woman's Council at Washington in
1862--Labors of Mrs. Hoge and Mrs. Livermore--Correspondence--
Circulars--Addresses--Mrs. Hoge's eloquence and pathos--The ample
contributions elicited by her appeals--Visit to the Camp of General
Grant at Young's Point, in the winter of 1862-3--Return with a cargo of
wounded--Second visit to the vicinity of Vicksburg--Prevalence of
scurvy--The onion and potato circulars--Third visit to Vicksburg in
June, 1863--Incidents of this visit--The rifle-pits--Singing Hymns under
fire--"Did you drop from heaven into these rifle-pits?"--Mrs. Hoge's
talk to the men--"Promise me you'll visit my regiment to-morrow"--The
flag of the Board of Trade Regiment--"How about the blood?"--"Sing,
Rally round the Flag Boys"--The death of R--"Take her picture from under
my pillow"--Mrs. Hoge at Washington again--Her views of the value of the
Press in benevolent operations--In the Sanitary Fairs at Chicago--Her
address at Brooklyn, in March, 1865--Gifts presented her as a testimony
to the value of her labors. 562-576