Annie Wittenmyer Photograph

Annie Wittenmyer Photograph

Civil Liberties; Religion in Ohio; Ohio Women; Military Ohio; Civil War; Nurses; Temperance

This photograph of Sarah Ann (Annie) Turner Wittenmyer (1827-1900) was taken circa 1895. She was born at Sandy Springs, Adams County, Ohio and moved with her husband to Keokuk, Iowa in 1850. During the Civil War (1861-1865) she became known as Iowa's "Angel of the Civil War." Wittenmyer cared for wounded soldiers under enemy fire at Shiloh and Vicksburg and helped establish sanitary battlefield kitchens. In recognition of her work, President Abraham Lincoln invited her to the White House on two occasions. This photograph measures 4.5" by 6.5" (11.4 by 16.5 cm). Wittenmyer also served as the first national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the first national chaplain and seventh national president of the Woman's Relief Corps. After the war, Wittenmyer authored Christian hymns, newspaper and magazine articles and several books, including Under the Guns (1895). General Ulysses S. Grant said of her, "No soldier on the firing-line gave more heroic service than she rendered."

Audiovisual material

circa 1895

Nick Kelly

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West Union (Ohio)

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photograph

11.4 by 16.5 cm