Mrs. Harvey, the governor's widow, went in the autumn to St. Louis as an agent of the state and visited hospitals along the Mississippi.

The evidence

• “Harvey to devote herself to the interests of our soldiers. Asking and receiving permission from Governor Salomon to visit hospitals in the western department as an agent of the state, she went in the autumn of 1862 to St. Louis and visited many general hospitals along the Mississippi river and post hospitals of the Wisconsin troops.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/16-military-history.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 422 / book p. 389

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

  Grade A: Found on a page of one of our sources

  

• “ernor Harvey took office on January 6, 1862. As Wisconsin’s First Lady, Cordelia Harvey served as the president of Madison’s Ladies Aid society, which raised money and made bandages, clothing, and bed supplies to help soldiers. In April of 1862, Governor Harvey accidentally drowned in the Tennessee River during a trip to visit wounded Wisconsin soldiers. Edward Salomon, who had been lieutenant governor under Louis Harvey, then became governor. Still in 1862, Governor Salomon appointed Cordelia Harvey to be the “sanitary agent” for Wisconsin troops. Her job was to visit Wisconsin soldiers in military hospitals in southern states and recommend ways their care could be improved. She was nicknamed “Wisconsin Angel” because of her devotion to comforting and caring for soldiers at hospitals that were often understaffed and overcrowded. She spent much of her time lobbying on behalf of Wisconsin soldiers who were too ill to ever return to the battlefield; she believed they”

  https://womeninwisconsin.org/profile/cordelia-harvey/

  womeninwisconsin.org, https://womeninwisconsin.org/profile/cordelia-harvey/

  Grade B: Found on an institutional web page