Angels of the Battlefield
by George Barton
About this book
"Angels of the Battlefield: A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War" chronicles the compassionate services of these dedicated women during the bitter and bloody U.S. Civil War. These accounts also offer some important historical details, giving some important insights into the people and events of the war. This is the Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters (59)
1 The Orders That Participated
2 Archbishop Hughs and the Sisters
3 In and around Richmond
4 Harper's Ferry
5 St. Louis Military Hospital, Part 1
6 St. Louis Military Hospital, Part 2
7 In and around Washington
8 Sister Anthony at Shiloh, Part 1
9 Sister Anthony at Shiloh, Part 2
10 Plymouth and Norfolk
11 Labors in Frecerick City
12 White House
13 Manassas and Antiem
14 New Orleans
15 Southern Battlefields
16 Gettysburg
17 Satterlee Hospital, Part 1
18 Satterlee Hospital, Part 2
19 Satterlee Hospital, Part 3
20 Satterlee Hospital, Part 4
21 The Fall of Richmond
22 Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
23 More about Nazareth
24 Sisters of Mt. St. Vincent
25 The Sisters of Mercy
26 The North Carolina Hospitals
27 Labors in the West, Part 1
28 Labors in the West, Part 2
29 The Stanton Hospital
30 Sisters of St. Joseph
31 Sisters of the Holy Cross
32 Mother Angela, Part 1
33 Mother Angela, Part 2
34 Non-Catholic Tributes, Part 1
35 Non-Catholic Tributes, Part 2
36 A Lesson in Charity
37 Appendix Part 1 An Innocent Victim
38 Appendix Part 2 Medals for Sisters
39 Appendix Part 3 Honored by the Queen
40 Appendix Part 4 Veterans of the Crimean War
41 Appendix Part 5 Poor Sister St. Claire
42 Appendix Part 6 Lord Napier's Testimony
43 Appendix Part 7 Very Rev. James Francis Burlando, C.M.
44 Appendix Part 8 Mother Seton
45 Appendix Part 9 The Sister of Charity
46 Appendix Part 10 Sisters of Charity
47 Appendix Part 11 The Angels of Buena Vista
48 Appendix Part 12 Catherine Elizabeth McAuley
49 Appendix Part 13 Clerical Veterans
50 Appendix Part 14 Catholics in the War
51 Appendix Part 15 The Sanitary Commission
52 Appendix Part 16 The Blue and the Gray
53 Appendix Part 17 A Miracle of War
54 Appendix Part 18 Lincoln at Gettysburg
55 Appendix Part 19 The Faith and the Flag
56 Appendix Part 20 A Romance of War
57 Publisher's Notice, Part 1
58 Publisher's Notice, Part 2
59 Publisher's Notice, Part 3
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