Minutes of the 22nd national convention of the Women's Relief Corps, 1905 Sept. 7-8.

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Minutes of the 22nd national convention of the Women's Relief Corps, 1905 Sept. 7-8.

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Minutes of the 22nd national convention of the Women's Relief Corps, held in Lancaster, Ohio Sept. 7-8, 1905, written by the Post No. 377 secretary. Also lists Ohio dept. assistant inspectors and other Ohio posts and officers.

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Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.). Ben Butterfield Post No. 377 (Lancaster, Ohio)

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Woman's Relief Corps (U.S.)

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National organization formed in 1883 at the Denver Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, as an auxiliary to that organization and to continue to "care for the Veteran and his dependent ones and to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead". As the number of Corps grew, each state elected its own governing body, subordinate to the national governing body. In addition to helping veterans, these women worked to get pension help for the nurses who served in the Civil War, founded a home for...