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Excerpt from Annual Address and Reports Read Before the Bunker Hill Ladies' Soldiers' Relief Society: April 19, 1864
Allusion was made to the early formation of the society at its first annual meeting, in April, 1862, by Mrs. Horace G. Hutchins, its first President; and we have therefore, only to repeat that its inception at a date antecedent to the assault upon our State tr00ps in the City of Baltimore, is due to the quick thought, prompt action and patriotic impulses of Miss almena B. Bates, - to whom we claim the right thus distinctly to award the honor that justly belongs to her. Immediately after reading the first proclamation of the President, on the fall of Fort Sumter, on the fifteenth of April, 1861, in which he called upon the loyal States for seventy-five thousand soldiers to defend the capital of the nation against the rebellious seceders from the government, it occurred to her that men so suddenly called from their homes and families to meet this emergency, must necessarily leave them not in all but in many cases.
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