At that time, she wrote a book, Hospital Scenes and Incidents of the War, which was in the hands of the publishers, with the provision that the proceeds should go to the sick and wounded.

[1] Her career was associated with the duties of corresponding secretary of the central committee of the Woman's Baptist Missionary Union of Georgia.

The central committee was organized by the home and foreign boards of the Southern Baptist Convention, November 19, 1878, in Atlanta, with Wilson as president.

She also served as the Georgia editor of the Baptist Basket, a missionary journal published in Louisville, Kentucky.

[4] Wilson had been a member of the Second Baptist church from early childhood, and was always connected with the institutions of the denomination.