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Title
Annie
Wittenmyer
Photograph
Subject
Civil Liberties
Religion in Ohio
Ohio Women
Military Ohio
Civil War
Nurses
Temperance
Place
Sandy Springs (Ohio)
Adams County (Ohio)
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
Description
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.
"
Date of Original
1895
circa
Source
Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution
Adams County Historical Society
Rights
For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at
http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html;
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om2875_2405380_001.tif
Image Height
2585
Image Width
1788
File Size
1247.186 KB
Format
picture
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