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Michigan in the Civil War Sanitary Operations
About June 1st, 1865, she returned to the State in ill health, remaining about two months, when $600 more was raised, and with it she went to Washington. There she procured an order allowing her to purchase military clothing at auction prices, for distribution among the most destitute freedmen on the southern frontier of Virginia.
On her application through Congressman F. C, Beaman and Senator B. F. Wade, she procured an order of Secretary Stanton for the release of 300 military prisoners in confinement at Ship Island and Dry Tortugas.
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