This broadside promotes a testimonial benefit of the Southern Relief Association, held on Monday evening, August 27, 1866. This benefit featured two plays, “Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady” and “Loan of a Lover.”
Relief Associations were created to provide assistance to soldiers during and after the war. In order to raise funds, associations relied on various ways, such as popular entertainment, to obtain the operational funding.
Image Courtesy Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield; WICR 30566
