Daughters of Charity, Sisters of Mercy and other Catholic orders nursed soldiers in Richmond, at Harper’s Ferry, in St. Louis and in field hospitals across the war. Barton gathers their story order by order, drawing on letters, chaplains’ recollections and the testimony of officers, including the suspicion some patients first felt towards nuns they had been taught to fear.
A record of a largely forgotten chapter of Civil War relief, for readers of nursing and religious history. Download the free EPUB.