Centennial records of the women of Wisconsin . THE NEW YORK PUBLIC library ^stor, Lenox and Tuden ,\^ foundations. v^. CENTENNIAL RECORDS. 37 THE SOLDIEES OEPHANS HOME. The history of this blessed and most successful work cannotbe even briefly sketched, without going back and giving some ofthe steps which led to its foundation. Among all the noble women who gave themselves to the sani-tary work of the war, perhaps few were more peculiarly fittedfor forming and carrying out plans than Mrs. C. A. P. at her entrance upon womanhood, she had been left theeldest of a family of motherless
Centennial records of the women of Wisconsin . THE NEW YORK PUBLIC library ^stor, Lenox and Tuden ,\^ foundations. v^. CENTENNIAL RECORDS. 37 THE SOLDIEES OEPHANS HOME. The history of this blessed and most successful work cannotbe even briefly sketched, without going back and giving some ofthe steps which led to its foundation. Among all the noble women who gave themselves to the sani-tary work of the war, perhaps few were more peculiarly fittedfor forming and carrying out plans than Mrs. C. A. P. at her entrance upon womanhood, she had been left theeldest of a family of motherless girls, over whom she exerciseda tender care even after her marriag-e. The thrill of horror Avith which the people of Wisconsinlearned that their Governor, Louis P. Harvey, had beendrowned at Savannah, after the frightful battles of PittsburgLanding and Shiloli, was one of those things never forgot-ten. His self appointed work had been the care of our soldiersin that fearful crisis, and out of this grew the career of hisstricken wife. Denying herself the usual period of seclusion forthe indulgence of a widows gri
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