GRATEFUL TO WOMEN

Charles E. Campbell Sends Contribution To Monument.

Mr. Charles E. Campbell, of Macon, Ga., has sent to Mrs. Thomas Baxter Gresham, 815 Park avenue, a handsome check as a contribution to the proposed monument to the Confederate Women of Maryland.

The check was accompanied by a letter in which Mr. Campbell states that the gift is in gratitude to Mrs. Charles J. Baker, mother of Mr. Bernard N. Baker, of this city, “who was especially active in her kindness to my brother, a mortally wounded prisoner, for more than a year in the enemy’s hands.”

Mr. Campbell continues: “When I went to Baltimore in 1866 to secure my brother’s body, among other articles found in his satchel was his notebook, one page of which is dedicated to the following ladies: Mrs. Charles J. Baker, Mrs. Loyal Cowles, Mrs. S. A. Berry, Mrs. Anna Hoffman and Miss Ellen Charron, with the address of each. On the occasion of my first visit, above mentioned, Mr. Charles Baker took me to his home, Athol, where I met his lovely family, and with the assistance of Mrs. Baker and the other ladies I located the temporary resting place of my brother in Greenmount Cemetery.

“The treasury of the nation could not measure in money the gratitude of my sainted mother to these dear women for their loving care while he lived and suffered and for his final rest until we could bring him home-her oldest son!

“So, as the last representative of my family, I beg to add my mite in the inclosed check to the proposed memorial to the dear women of Baltimore.”

Major Samuel H. Lyon, 101 East Preston street, is the treasurer of the fund, which already amounts to some $2,000.