Her executive abilities during the years that she was actively engaged in WRC advanced the organization's patriotic work.

For having aided needy African American fugitives, Mr. Brown was imprisoned in Frankfort, Kentucky for three years, and his family were compelled to remove to the North.

[4] She organized aid societics, assisted in the distributing of supplies, helped in the hospitals and did everything in her power to ameliorate the condition of the sick and suffering.

She served as district president of her union for several years and went as delegate to the national convention in Minneapolis.

In 1891, she was made a trustee and general agent for the United States of the National Grand Army of the Republic Memorial College at Oberlin, Kansas.

She was present at the dedication of the National Woman's Relief Corps Home, and received the important donation from the Ohio Legislature.

[1] When the national organization was discussing whether it would or would not admit other than those who were consanguinous relations of old soldiers, Wickens was one of the strongest supports of the "loyal woman".

Oddly enough for one of her patriotic character, Wickens had not a single relative so far she knew in the Civil War.

In the plea which she presented to the national convention against the proposed closing of the ranks of the WRC to all but the blood relations of old soldiers, she made the statement that she was just as loyal to the Union and its defenders as any woman in the U.S.

If this proposed clause in the constitution carried, she would be shut out from participation in a work to which she had already devoted many years, although not a member of any organization.

[10] She labored to establish scholarships in the College at Manhattan when its friends sought to make the teaching of patriotism its foremost principle.

[8] In October 1902, Wickens attended the National Association of Army Nurses reception held in Washington, and spoke on the subject, "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Rules the World".