Eddyville Iowa
Sept. 7th 1863.

To whom it may concern

The undersigned has been charged by some scoundrel, or by some wrongly informed person or persons with being a Copperhead. This is to give all persons interested, notice, that I am an Unconditional, Uncompromising and Inexhaustable Union man. I never have been any thing else, and by the blessing of God, I hope always to be found battling for the union undivided, for freedom to all men, for my country forever.

W. P. WIGHTMAN.
of the firm of FISH and WIGHTMAN.
Eddyville Iowa.

- The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, 26 SEP 1863