It may not be amiss to suggest . . .

. . . to the good people of Burlington and surrounding country that wounded Iowa soldiers by the hundred, perhaps by the thousand, are in hospital at Cairo, Mound City, and on the Tennessee river – that they need hospital stores, sheets and pillow slips, shirts, bandages, towels, eggs, butter, [wines], jellies and a hundred other things that are abundant here, but very scarce and impossible to procure there – that these things, with good nursing, are necessary to save the lives of many of these noble men. While we have abundance – while we are living in peace and comfort here, let us not see those who are fighting our battles languish and die in dreary hospitals when we can help them at so trifling an expense of money and labor. Every body can do something, however, small. And will be better, yes richer for doing it. Iowa soldiers must be cared for.

– Published in the Burlington Daily Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862, the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862 and the Daily State Journal, Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862