caroline harrison joined him and they had two children. they really just started to find some measure of success at the outbreak of the civil war. for harrison, he had a very difficult decision to make. whether he would hire a substitute, wait and see what intons, he was called governor morton's. about lincoln's call for 300,000 new groups -- troops. harrison heard this whole story from governor morton and thought about it. he said if needed, i will go. morton said i'm not asking you to serve, he just needed help raising additional troops. he made it clear that if you were to ask others to serve that he himself would serve. lead thement on to and started off as a second lieutenant. he had risen to brigadier general. we are now in the library. benjamin harrison spent a lot of time here actually, when he wasn't at his loft this might be somewhere he would come in the evening to read. here in the bay window on a hot august day and wrote a letter to what would be his second wife and it said the sweat was rolling down his chin. we have a lot of

caroline harrison has a fascinating story of her own. she and benjamin harrison during college so caroline harrison was college-educated. professor and a for the harrison's, education was always deeply important to them especially with their own children. caroline harrison studied language, music, art. that really carried through in her priorities. so the harrison's as they were building their home in indianapolis were very tasteful .n doing so certainly carolyn had a flourish for art and we know that she loved watercolor painting. she loved china painting. we have one oil painting by her. tos just really remarkable see her work especially with china painting that she's done. she's best known as first lady for having protected the white house china collection. she went through the white house when they came to washington at a time when the white house was in total disrepair. she drove forward plans to significantly restore and build upon the white house, expand it. from congress to be able to remediate the great dilapidation that the whit