 10 among "1,100 colored women and children in distress" and a Union Army encampment.She had $4 from her Baptist Sabbath School in Belvidere, Ill., a promise of another $4 each month, a commission from The American Baptist Home Mission Society (without salary); she was the first missionary appointment made to the South.Thus she began a ministry that would span 40 years and earn her the moniker "Swamp Angel of the South."