Annie Turner Wittenmyer

August 26,1827 - February 2,1900

During the Civil War, Annie Turner Wittenmyer worked with great diligence to bring aid and comfort to the sick and wounded Union soldiers. She and many other women with the Sanitary Commission entered the battlefields to tend to the injured soldiers. After the war, Annie Wittenmyer organized Iowa's first orphange, and soon became the founder and first president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).

At her home in Sanatoga, PA.

 

( This website was created by students at Pottsgrove Middle School in Pottstown, PA. Photographs on this website are of Civil War re-enactors portraying scenes from the book

Under the Guns: A Woman's Reminiscences of the Civil War

written by Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer in 1895.)