In February 1863, the women of Lowell, Massachusetts, organized a two-day "Mammoth Fair" occupying two exhibition halls and netting over four thousand dollars for the cause.Lowell Daily Citizen and News, 14 February 1863, p. 2. Groups in other cities soon adopted this plan.Manchester (NH) Daily Mirror, 9 May 1863, p. 4; Salem (MA) Register, 11 June 1863, p. 2.
