June 2, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)
On Thursday morning last, about the hour of seven o’clock, Mrs. Mena Landgraff, wife of Charles A. Landgraff, who is now a member of Company D, First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters, left her residence, situated at the corner of Broughton and West Broad streets, for the purpose of going to the market house and returning. At the time she left she had about her somewhere in the neighborhood of one hundred and fifty dollars, and wore a lilac calico dress, light plaid silk apron with a frill; the sleeves of her dress was trimmed with a different colored calico than that of her dress; a white straw hat trimmed with red ribbon, and a thick pair of shoes–black silk mantilla and white collar, and carried a basket of reddish color. At the time she left I had every reason to believe that she would shortly return home to breakfast, but from that hour she has never been seen by me. She was seen in the market by several purchasing her meats.
I make this statement known to the public in as much as I was living with her, and feel confident that some foul play has been done. I call upon the public officers and citizens to use their honest efforts in ferriting out this thing in order that the guilty may be brought to that punishment so much deserved.
Miss Ellen Kennedy.
Savannah, May 30th, 1863.
Any information given will be thankfully received.