The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 1, number 3, March 1918

              a wisconsin woman's picture of presi dent lincoln cordelia a p harvey hundreds of loyal women labored devotedly during the civil war ministering to the needs of the northern soldiers of them all none worked more effectively or earned a larger measure of appreciation and devotion on the part of those she served than mrs cordelia a p harvey wife of governor lewis harvey of wisconsin after his tragic death by drowning at savannah tennessee while engaged in a mission of mercy to wisconsin's wounded soldiers mrs harvey con ceived the idea that it was her duty to carry forward the work that her husband had left unfinished in september 1862 governor salomon appointed her sanitary agent at st louis and until the end of the war she continued in this service some idea of her methods and of their effectiveness may be gained from the narrative which follows what the soldiers thought of her is sufficiently indicated by the title the angel of wisconsin which they bestowed upon her the narrative we print is from mrs harvey's typewritten copy of a lecture which she delivered following the close of the war this manuscript the owner mrs james selkirk of clinton wisconsin permitted the wisconsin history com mission to copy a few years since and it was made the basis in large part of chapters viii and ix of hum's wisconsin women in the war between the states published by the com mission in 1911 prior to this the portion of the paper per taining to president lincoln was drawn upon by j g holland in preparing his life of lincoln thus the paper has twice been drawn upon freely for publication notwithstand ing this the complete story in mrs harvey's own words is sufficiently interesting and important to justify its publica