The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-10-13
STATEMENT OF CoMAIrTEE.

STATEMENT OF COMMITTEE
eve inquired at Cairo, Columbus and
at Crinth tor Mrs. Wittemeyer, lutely APP,
pointed State Sanitary Agent by our Leg.
lslaiure at It's last special session, hoping
to receive some information as to the po-
sltion and wants of our troops. To our
surprise, we could learn nothing more
than that she occasionally visited these
points, spending few days with her
friends. but she had never had an Office or
depot at any of these points and had not
been seen in this department. for months =
MRS. wITrENMEYER's REPLY.
EDITOR GAzErrEI notice in your is
sue Of to-day an addressed to Rev. A. j /.
kynets, purporting to be the report of a
committee sent south immediately after
the battle of fuka: and as unjust, I'M
founded and discreditable insnuations
are made in connection with my name,
deem ii due TO the ladies of the State,
whose agent ! have been since the COM
mencement of the war, and who are now
giving me their aid and sympathy, to
correct any false impressions, made thro'
that, or any other source
/ have simply to state that have de.
voted all of my time for the last fifteen
months, to the core of our sick and wound
ed soldiers, and in efforts for their relief
and comfort. / have received and dis
tributed most of the sanitary goods com
ing from this State have, with my own
hands, distributed wines and delicacies.
and prepared and distributed feed 10 hun.
dreds of our sick and wounded soldiers.
as hundreds Of them from this and other
States would gladly attest. / have writ
ten hundreds Of letters for our sick and
dying men, when perhaps your commit
tee and the people of the State, were Sc
curely and comfortably sleeping upon their
beds. have distributed in camps and
hospitals thousands of religious tracts and
newspapers, and have stood by hundreds
of our friendless aud dying soldiers, when
they had laid their armor by, and the
hopes and scenes of earth were rapidly
fading, talked with them of immortality,
and pointed them "to Christ in whom is
eternal life
! have bought milk at various prices,
at from forty cents 10 one dollar per gal.
lon, and distributed to our men in hospi-
tai, who we're dying for want of it, and
have received no compensation for it except
the soldiers tears Of gratitude l have
spent considerable sums of my own mon
ey, for which l have asked no return
have endured countless hardships and pri-
vations--have labored almost necessarily, |
living on soldiers rations, in situations of
great peril. Have constantly maintained
q depot, and have now, and have had for
months dePets at st. Louis, Jack
con, Tenn. and Corinth, Miss. Have
supplied our troops on the field as oppor-
tnnity offered, and have cons family beon |
among our hospitals. except when called
away on business of importance, absent
ing myself no longer than possible. Ihave
been supplying our hospitals with female
nurses, and am now on my way to Cor
NTH, having engaged the services Of eight
true hearted. benevolent, Christian ladies'
Of the highest responsibility, who will ac-
company me.
For all these, and multitude of labors
which have crowded themselves into the
The last eventful year, Ihape not received
me cent. have been actuated by high
n motive than gold can offer have
5ried to do my duty as Christian and
patriot, and it is not for those who stay
It home, or who occasionally take : . tour ti