Diary of Josephine Shaw Lowell: September 22, 1862

God bless Abraham Lincoln. He has issued a proclamation emancipating all slaves on the 1st of January, 1863, in any State then in rebellion against the Government. Father and George think it's splendid and believe fully in its wisdom and effects, but Mother fears it won't be as well as if he had emancipated on the spot, although of course she rejoices in the step. Howard went for the papers this morning and proclaimed the news aloud as he appeared, thereby upsetting the equilibrium of the family. Old Abe is wise and I guess this will work.

SOURCE: William Rhinelander Stewart, The Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, p. 34-5

Dr. Wm. H. White

We had a call from this gentleman yesterday morning, as he was on his way to Cairo, going at his own expense and with the laudable object of doing all the good he can in his professional capacity to relieve the sufferings of the wounded soldiers.  Dr. White was surgeon of the First Iowa Regiment, and was the most successful physician that accompanied the Iowa troops.  He was with that Regiment in the State of Missouri during the four sickly months of June, July, August, and September, and of about twelve hundred and fifty cases that came under his hands, over one hundred of which were sunstroke , he lost only one man.  During that time his regiment lost but four men by disease, the other three dying while not under the care of Dr. White.  We mention these facts simply from the circumstance that reports have been circulated prejudicial to his reputation, as the record shows the least moratity by far in his regiment of any that have gone from our State.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, February 21, 1862, p. 1