Mrs. Wittenmyer, of Keokuk, is doing good service for the Iowa soldiers: The Gate City of Thursday says:
“Mrs. Wittenmyer was in St. Louis on the 1st, and gathered up and forwarded to Cairo some forty large boxes of supplies for soldiers, valued at three to four thousand dollars. She returned to Cairo on the 2d, and thence intended to follow our army up the Tennessee river and be near our soldiers with the much-needed supplies in case of a battle. The Ladies’ Aid Societies are requested and urged to send forward additional supplies as rapidly as possible, as they will be needed before long. Send to care of Partridge & Co., St. Louis.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 10, 1862, p. 1
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