When Lincoln met Wisconsin's Nightingale Cordelia Harvey's Campaign for Civil War Soldier Care

Join author Daniel L. Stika as he examines the work of Wisconsin''s Nightingale, Cordelia Harvey. As a tireless campaigner for improved medical care for Civil War soldiers, Harvey inspects battlefield hospitals and takes her reports of squalor and death all the way to the White House. Throughout the course of several meetings with President Abraham Lincoln, Harvey advocates for the construction of...