He was sick in general hospital on Augsick in Louisville, KY on Septemand in Jeffersonville, IN just before that. He was wounded in his right arm in the Battle at Kennesaw Mountain on July 2, 1864. Johnson joined Company D at Strawberry Plains, VA. He enlisted for three years on Februat Oconomowoc, WI, and mustered at Madison, WI on Februas a Private (Menig). He had blue eyes, brown hair, light complexion, and stood 5’7¼”.
The army listed him as living in East Troy (or Cast Iron), Walworth County, WI, age 18, a cooper, and unmarried. Johnson joined the WI 15th Infantry, Company D. The men of the company called themselves the “Norway Wolf Hunters.” They were also known as the “Waupun Company” because so many of its members were from Waupun. Read more about Cordelia Harvey in the Badger Biographies book "Cordelia Harvey: Civil War Angel" available from the Wisconsin Historical Society Press.John Johnson was born on Octoin Telemark, Norway. "I would not exchange the memory of their grateful faces and their heartfelt 'God bless you’s' for anything in this world." Reading Level Correlations She will always be remembered as Wisconsin's Angel. They cared for the children of soldiers killed in the Civil War.
One was in Madison, one in Milwaukee and one in Prairie du Chien. Soon there were three hospitals in Wisconsin. Cordelia took it to President Abraham Lincoln. She started a petition. It was signed by over 8,000 people. The petitioners wanted a hospital built in Wisconsin for their soldiers. Cordelia knew that Wisconsin needed its own hospitals. View the original source document: WHI 10028 View the original source document: WHI 10028Īll the hospitals were in other states. Opened on January 1, 1866, as the orphan asylum. Soldiers' Orphans Home, Farwell House, 1870. Cordelia even helped the Confederate soldiers that were prisoners of war. Soldiers would recognize her and ask for help. Cordelia often wore a cape with a black hood when she traveled. She kept visiting hospitals and bringing soldiers news and gifts from home. She asked women to send food, blankets, clothing and other supplies. She wrote letters to the governor of Wisconsin to ask for more doctors and nurses. Diseases killed more soldiers than bullets.Ĭordelia worked to change all of this. There were never enough doctors or nurses. Many patients had to sleep outside in tents. View the original source document: WHI 75288Ĭordelia Harvey toured battlefields and inspected military hospitals. Hospital care during the Civil War often did more harm than good. The Civil WarĪ page of the original petition to build Wisconsin hospitals that Cordelia Harvey submitted to president Abraham Lincoln. Her decision changed the lives of people in Wisconsin for the better.
Cordelia made up her mind to keep visiting them. She knew how important those visits were to the soldiers. Cordelia Harvey was first lady for only 94 days. In 1862 Governor Harvey drowned while visiting wounded Wisconsin soldiers. Sadly, his time as governor didn’t last long. In 1861 he was elected governor of Wisconsin. When she got older, she became a schoolteacher. Her family moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1840. Cordelia HarveyĬordelia Adelaide Perrine was born in upstate New York in 1824. How did Cordelia go from teaching children their ABCs to meeting President Abraham Lincoln? And how did she earn the nickname "Wisconsin Angel"? Let's find out. One day you're a schoolteacher, the next you're the first lady of Wisconsin.
View the original source document: WHI 36009 From the collection of Lucius Fairchild, 1831-1896: Lucius Fairchild papers, 1819-1943.
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