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May 28, 1863, Natchez Daily Courier
                      Permit me to call your attention to one deserving your ever ready sympathies.  A noble, patriotic, devoted woman, a resident of this city, has lately returned home on a visit to her children, after an absence of two years, having followed her husband, a soldier, to Virginia, where she has been incessantly engaged in ministering to the wants of the sick and wounded in the Hospitals, the tented field and on many a field of battle.  She was actively employed in the above capacity in the fights before Richmond, at the second battle of Manassas, and at Sharpsburg, Md., marching with the army, having canteens of water strung around her, for the parched and thirsty, and with her haversack containing splinters, lint and bandages for the wounded.  Having obtained a furlough to visit her home, she was stopped on the route and made a prisoner by Grierson’s cavalry on their late raid; her trunk, containing all her wearing apparel, was burnt with the Railroad cars, her purse was taken from her, the contents torn into shreds and trampled in the mud.  She was then made to march to Brookhaven, a distance of 125 miles, when she was released, with the thread of imprisonment during the war if caught again.  Finding no conveyance, she walked to this place, and is now destitute; but cheerful, hopeful, resolute, and determined to return shortly to the army, and resume her duties as a “Ministering Angel,” to the suffering soldier.  Her name is Mrs. Spangler, and she lives near Brown’s Sawmill.                C.