Title: Wisconsin angel
Description: "As an educator and wife of Wisconsin Governor [Louis P. Harvey], Cordelia Harvey journeys from an ambitious young woman to a brave and persistent soldier's advocate. Her passionate work [and pleading her case to President Lincoln] even resulted in a Veteran's Hospital in Wisconsin."
Subjects: Biography, Governors' spouses, History, Women, Female Participation, Hospitals, Medical care, Military participation, Female, Fiction, historical, general, United states, history
Places: Wisconsin, United States
People: Cordelia A. P. Harvey (1824-1895), Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865