one man, utterly disabled for life, not a
regret--and even he thanked God devoutly that if his life must be given
up then, it should be given for his country.

"After a little, as the thought of his wife and babies came to him, I
saw a terrible struggle; the great beads of sweat and the furrowed brow
were more painful than the bodily suffering. But when he saw the look of
pity, and heard the passage, 'He doeth all things well,' whispered to
him, he became calm, and said, 'He knows best, my wife and children will
be His care, and I am content.'

"Among the beardless boys, it was all heroism. 'They gained the victory,
they lost a leg there, they lost an arm, and Arkansas Post was taken;
they were proud to have helped on the cause.' It enabled them apparently
with little effort to remember the great, the holy cause, and give leg,
arm, or even life cheerfully for its defense.

"I know now that love of country is the strongest love, next to the love
of God, given to man."

Besides the good done to the sick and wounded of our army by these
visits, an equal benefit resulted in their effect upon the people at
home, in inspiring them to new zeal and energy, and increasing
generosity on behalf of the country and its brave defenders.

Another service of great value to the soldiers, was rendered by Mrs.
Colt, under an appointment from the Governor of Wisconsin, to visit the
Army of the Cumberland, and see personally all sick Wisconsin men. She
went under the escort of Rev. J. P. T. Ingraham, and saw every sick
soldier of the Wisconsin troops in hospital. Their heroic endurance and
its recital after her return, stimulated immensely the generosity of the
people.

In such services as these Mrs. Colt passed the four years of the war,
and by her self-sacrifice and devotion to the cause, in which her heart
and mind were warmly enlisted, by the courage and fortitude with which
she braved danger and death, in visiting distant battle-fields, and
camps and hospitals, and ministering at the couch of sickness, and pain,
and death, that she might revive the spirit, and save the lives of those
who were battling for Union and Liberty, she has won the gratitude of
her country, and deserves the place accorded to her among the heroines
of the age.

MRS. ELIZA SALOMON, the accomplished and philanthropic wife of Governor
Salomon, of Wisconsin, was at the outbreak of the war living quietly at
Milwaukee, and amid the patriotic fervor which then