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Supplies For Vicksburg

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Day
29
Month
May
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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Telegram from Judge Skinner : " Push forward supplies for (.he wounded at Vicksburg, rooms are ompty." MARK SKINNER. Pres't. Sun. Com. Vegetables (potatoes or onions) and dried fruit, put up in barrels or bpxes and marked, Sanitary Commission, Chicago. UI. Prom Per Chaplain 8. Dny. And sent to any Depot on the M. C. Railroad, will bu imtnediately forwardcd. A shipmont will bo made from Ann Arbor, on Monday or Tuesday of nest woek, Help your hero sons, brothers, husbands, and fathers iu arms, sick or woundüd, and delay not in the aid rendered. Chaplain 8. DAY. Military Agent and TJ, S. Sanitary Commissioner. Ann Arbor, May 27, 1863. In oonnection vvith the above we extract the following from theproceedings of the General Association of the Congregational Church of this State, the annual session of which has just been held at Union City : The Association assembled at 7 12 o'clock, vvhen addresses in behalf oi the army were delivered by Messrs. Savage, District Secretary of" the Boston Tract Society, and Rev. Mr. Day, Ohaplatn of tbe 8th Illinois Inlantry,' now soliciting aid in this State tor the Sanitary Commission. At the close of the addresses, Deacon Van Valkenburg offored a resol ution to the effect that every church in the Association be requosted to contribute ten barrels of potatoes eachfto be shipped to the Suüitary Commission at Chicago immediately; and, fuuher, that a collection bo taken up on the Subbath folluwing the 4th of July next for a natiönal offoring to the army. This was adopted unanimously.

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