Archive for the ‘Women’ Category

0

Who Helped Annie at Vicksburg?

Annie Wittenmyer helped Iowa soldiers wherever they needed her most during the first half of the Civil War. During the Vicksburg campaign, some of them returned the favor. In 1850 Sarah Ann ” Annie” Wittenmyer and her husband William, an Ohio merchant, came to Keokuk, Iowa, a community in the midst of a decade of […]