No immediate results came from her continued efforts to secure permission to go to the front. She still remained in New England through the month of May, but in June returned to Washington and remained there until the 18th of July. She had already been receiving supplies from her friends in New Jersey as well as from Massachusetts. She now went to Bordentown and from there to New York, Boston, Worcester, and Oxford. This journey was made for the purpose of ensuring a larger and continuous supply of provisions, for she had now obtained what she long had coveted, her permission to go to the front. Authority, when it finally came, was direct from the Surgeon-General’s office, and it gave her as large liberty as she could well have asked. The following passes and authorizations were all issued within twenty-four hours. Just how she obtained them, we do not know. In some way her persistence triumphed over all official red tape, and when she secured her passes they were practically unlimited either as to time or destination. The following are from the official records: SURGEON-GENERAL’S OFFICE July 11, 1862 Miss C. H. Barton has permission to go upon the sick transports in any direction--for the purpose of distributing comforts for the sick and wounded--and nursing them, always subject to the direction of the surgeon in charge. WILLIAM A. HAMMOND Surgeon-General, U.S.A. SURGEON-GENERAL’S OFFICE WASHINGTON CITY, July 11, 1862 SIR: At the request of the Surgeon-General I have to request that you give every facility to Miss Barton for the transportation of supplies for the comfort of the sick. I refer you to the accompanying letter. Very respectfully R. C. WOOD, A.S. Gen’l. MAJOR D. H. RUCKER, A.Q.M. WASHINGTON, D.C. OFFICE OF DEPOT QUARTERMASTER WASHINGTON, July 11, 1862 Respectfully referred to General Wadsworth, with the request that permission be given this lady and friend to pass to and from Acquia Creek on Government transports at all times when she may wish to visit the sick and hospitals, etc., with such stores as she may wish to take for the comfort of the sick and wounded. D. H. RUCKER, Quartermaster and Col. H’D QRS. MIL. DIV. OF VA. WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11, 1862 The within mentioned lady (Miss Barton) and friend have permission to pass to and from Fredericksburg by Government boat and railroad at all times to visit sick and wounded and to take with her all such stores as she may wish to take for the sick, and to pass anywhere within the lines of the United States forces (excepting to the Army of the Potomac), and to travel on any military railroad or Government boat to such points as she may desire to visit and take such stores as she may wish by such means of transportation. By order of Brig.-Gen’l Wadsworth, Mil. Gov. D.C. T. E. ELLSWORTH, Capt. and A.D.C. INSPECTOR-GENERAL’S OFFICE, ARMY OF VIRGINIA WASHINGTON, D.C., August 12, 1862 No. 83