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Waupaca Republican

November 8, 1907

Capt. A.G. Dinsmore and wife returned last Friday from their trip to the Andersonville prison site in Georgia, now a National cemetery and park site owned and controlled by the Woman’s Relief Corps. They went with the party which included Governor Davidson and others to dedicate the Wisconsin Monument erected to commemorate Wisconsin Soldiers who died there during the dark days of Rebellion. They brought back a small bottle of water from “Providence Spring”, the Spring that God sent to the famishing soldiers who were compelled to drink from the muddy rivulet on one side of the prison pen. It is said that one night during a thunderstorm a bolt of lightning struck into the soil with an almost deafening crash. The next morning there was seen a gushing spring of cool, sparkling water on the spot where the lightning struck.