recommended to the pastors of all our churches to lift collections on Thanksgiving Day, or as soon after as expedient for the noble enterprize, and forward the amounts collected to the Rooms of the Christian Commission, Baltimore street, Baltimore Maryland, or to any other Committee connected with the Christian Commission. Baltimore Christian Association. Throughout our report in connection with hospitals and other points of labor will be found the names of members of the Baltimore Christian Association. Sixty-three of nearly one hundred, composing the Association, have been commissioned as Delegates. They have visited the camps and hospitals from Cumberland to the front near Richmond, and rendered great service to the cause. The services of these gentlemen are the more valuable on account of their large experience in visiting the sick and ministering to the necessitous of every character. Among the hospitals and public institutions of the city, nearly all the members of the Association are in the habit of visiting. They assist the Chaplains in holding prayer-meetings, and praying by the bedsides of the patients, &c. We have been assured by Chaplains and Surgeons of hospitals that the services of the members of this Association could not be omitted without detriment to the cause of religion among the sufferers of the wards and the convalescing under their charge. The monthly meetings of the Association are held regularly when reports of most interesting character are presented. There is scarcely a service in which persons of a religious character can engage that is more profitable to the community than is that rendered by the Baltimore Christian Association. Maryland Soldiers Home. There is an Association chartered by the Maryland Legislature for the purpose of providing an Asylum for the permanently disabled soldiers of the war who have no means of support. The number of these after the war will be considerable. Several have appeared at our rooms desiring relief. Others have been driven to the extremity of street begging. Others again have been obliged to seek a home in the Almshouse. It is desirable that some permanent provision should be made for these persons. The Secretary of our Committee is the President of the Association, having this work of benevolence on hand. It is designed that land shall be purchased in the vicinity of Baltimore city, upon which buildings shall be erected for the permanent accommodation and support of these unfortunate persons. At present, accommodations are provided for twenty to twenty-five by the erection of a frame building on the bed of an unopened. square of Oregon street, between Franklin and Mulberry streets. Permission was given by the Mayor for the occupancy of the ground, which it is supposed will not be required for the use of the street for several years to come. The hospital building is one of the most complete and comfortable of its kind that has been erected. It is plastered and painted, and altogether as serviceable and as durable as an ordinary frame dwelling. This is as necessary a work as has interested our Committee, and it has our most earnest prayers for its success and usefulness. Services of Dr. F. E. B. Hintze. We have found it necessary in the prosecution of our labors outside of the hospitals and camps, to call in, medical aid on behalf of Delegates while passing through the city, refugees in distress, whom we have assisted in necessity, the familiest ot absent soldiers and others discharged from the service. In nearly every case we have called for the attendance of our friend, Dr. F. E. B. Hintze, and although he has retired from the practice of his profession, he has, with his usual readiness and promptness responded to our calls. In other than professional services we have been favored by the Docter's assistance, and it is due to him that the Committee. should make this acknowledgment of the application of his distinguished abilities in the service of the Commission. Services of Dr. Jos. C. Bensinger. Dr. Jos. C. Bensinger, of Catonsville, Maryland, was twice in our service as a Delegate. He rendered very important assistance in the exercise of his medical ability to Surgeons of the army. The following letter was received from him after his return from his first service: G. S. GRIFFITH, Esq., Chairman of the Committee U. S. C. C.: DEAR SIR-I left Baltimore on June 28th, at 51 P. M., for City Point, Va., arrived there about 6 P. M., June 29th, after stopping a short time at Fort Monroe. Reported to Surgeon E. B. Dalton, chief Medical Officer, June 30th. Was, by request, assigned to the Sixth Corps, having previously worked in that corps. Assistant Surgeon McDonald, chief Surgeon of the corps, assigned me to Hospital B., with Surgeon Saunders. Our patients numbered upon an average, one hundred and twenty, there being constantly removals and additions. The time I remained there I performed the routine duties; attending to the sick and wounded, dressing, prescribing diet, &c.; assisting in removals, &c. A few of our Surgeons and Delegates being taken sick, I also took charge of them. Left for Baltimore July 13th, arrived home July 15th; my visit having only the more fully impressed me with the conviction of the inestimable good the U. S. Christian Commission accomplishes. I remain very respectfully, ever yours to command in this Christian work, Jos. C. BENSINGER, M. D., Services of Mrs. C. A. C. Norris. Among the leading women that have labored in the service of our Commission, we have held in high estimation, Mrs. C. A. C. Norris, of Boston. The valuable services rendered by this lady are extensively known and appreciated. At West's Building Hospital, she labored a long time with assiduous application. Her active service among the ladies of the New England Kitchen of the Maryland State Fair will not soon be forgotten. While at West's Building Hospital there was no case of necessity that escaped her notice, and her ministrations to the sufferers were most promptly and efficiently applied. Possessing perfectly the confidence of the Surgeons of the hospital, she has moved among the wards dispensing her services as they were needed in the relief of the disabled objects of her sympathy and care. Many a basket has been filled at our rooms which she has herself carried to the scene of her labors and dispensed the contents with her own hands to the sufferers. May the life of this noble lady long be spared for the exercise of her distinguished benevolence. Services of Mrs. J. C. Moore and her Daughter, Miss Jane B. Moore. These ladies have been in the service of suffering humanity since a short time after the commencement of the war. They have generally selected as their points of labor such places as were most destitute of the services they were ever ready to render. During the past year they have endured many privations and hardships, and labored most faithfully and efficiently among the camps and hospitals of the army of the Potomac. They are now in the Shenandoah Valley, where they are ministering in their benevolent services to the sick and wounded of the camps and hospitals. Under the protection and by the permission and request of General Grant, they prepared the delicacies they had provided through the the contributions of their friends and delivered them to the suffering men, who would otherwise have been deprived of the services of which they were greatly in need. Officers and men of the army beheld the labors and endurances of these noble women with amazement, and were induced to render them every assistance in their power. They proceeded as near the trenches as it was possible for them to go, and under the notice and approval of the most distinguished of the army officials, administered their nicely prepared provisions and stimulants to the patients entrusted to their care. Like services with those performed in the army of the Potomac, was rendered to that of the Valley of the Shenandoah, under the supervision and with the approval of General Sheridan. The following letter recently received from Miss Moore, tells a much better story than we can of the dangers and hardships endured and services rendered by these selfsacrificing, devoted and truly patriotic women. REV. J. N. M'JILTON, D.D.: EIGHTH CORPS HOSPITAL, DEAR SIR-On my return from daily distribution in Sheridan Hospital I received your kind letter, and hasten to thank you for the generous assistance and encouragement I have ever met with from you, in a task whose difficulties are known to few, and if aught from my pen can benefit the suffering, or appeal in their behalf, it shall not be wanting. Early in the spring we visited Wheeling, and collected some thirty boxes of stores and delicacies for the troops in the Valley, receiving also from Mr. Stewart a large assortment of books, leaflets, paper, &c. With these we visited General Siegel's army, near Winchester, supplying the 12th West Va., the 1st Wheeling Battery, Snow's Maryland Battery, the 1st Va., the 54th Penn., 18th Conn., 34th Mass., and other regiments, with Hymn-books, papers, soldier's books, pickles, stationery, &c. The army received marching orders before we left, and we had the satisfaction of bringing a mail of our own collection, (knapsacks and writing material having been sent to the rear) of thirteen hundred letters, some of them doubtless, the lust the writers ever penned. In May, by the advice of the Surgeon General, we took a large collection of stores up the James river, remaining ten weeks in the hospitals of the 10th and 18th Corps, at Point of Rocks, on the Appomattox. After the battle of May the 20th, many of the wounded were brought here, and to not a few of these we supplied as well as others could supply, the places of mothers and sisters far away. In our little room, filled as it was with boxes, barrels, and cooking utensils, the Delegates had one delightful soldier's prayer-meeting, attended by some fifty of our patients. In the graveyard at the "Point," sleep many who were then the objects of our care. When the mine was exploded, and the disastrous charge made before Petersburg, a wide field was offered in the field hospitals of the 9th corps, within some two miles of Petersburg, and a tent being furnished us, through the kindness of the Medical Director, Dr. Prince, at General Burnside's request, we devoted ourselves more particularly to the relief of the sick and wounded of Gen. Ferrero's Division, (colored) and mostly from Maryland. The horrors of Gettysburg did not surpass those of that day—even yet I recall those woods, thickly strewn with the mangled and dying, some with arm and leg off, one with both eyes gone, some insensible, and others moaning, in an agony of |