Image: Angels of the battlefield - a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war (1898) (14762468262)

Description: General Meade at Gettysburg Identifier: angelsofbattlefi00bart (find matches) Title: Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: Barton, George, 1866-1940 Subjects: Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul North Caroliniana Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., : The Catholic Art Publishing Company Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: he Sisters to go into the town of Gettysburg, where they would find sufficient employment for their zealous charity. Every large building in Gettysburg was being filled as fast as the wounded men could be carried in. Within and around the city one hundred and thirteen hospitals were in operation, be-sides those located in private houses. On reaching Gettysburg the Sisters were shown to the hospital, where they distributed their little stores and did all they could to relieve and console the wounded soldiers. Two of the Sisters returned to Emmittsburg that same evening with Father Burlando, for the purpose of sending additional nurses to relieve those already on the ground. On arriving at the first hospital the surgeon in charge took the Sisters to the ladies who had been at-tending there and said to them: ^Ladies, here are the Sisters of Charity come to sene our wounded; they will give all the directions here; you are only required to ob-serve them. Those addressed cheerfully bowed their assent. Text Appearing After Image: GETTYSBUEG. 137 The soldiers seemed to think that the presence of the Sisters softened, their anguish. One Sister was giving a drink to a poor dying man with a teaspoon. It was slow work and a gentleman who entered unobserved at the time stood near by without speaking for some moments. This gentleman was from a distance and was in search of the very person the Sister was serving. Standing a moment in silence, he exclaimed in a loud voice:May God bless the Sisters of Charity, and repeated it emphatically, adding: I am a Protestant, but may God bless the Sisters of Charity. The Catholic Church in Gettysburg was filled with sick and wounded. The stations of the cross hung around the walls, with a very large oil painting of St. Francis Xavier holding in his hand a crucifix. The first man put in the sanctuary was baptized, expressing truly Christian sentiments. His pain was excruciating and when sympathy was offered him he said: Oh, what are the pains I suffer compared with those of my Redeemer. Thu Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Angels of the battlefield - a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war (1898) (14762468262)
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