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)
1The Orders That Participated
2Archbishop Hughs and the Sisters
3In and around Richmond
4Harper's Ferry
5St. Louis Military Hospital, Part 1
6St. Louis Military Hospital, Part 2
7In and around Washington
8Sister Anthony at Shiloh, Part 1
9Sister Anthony at Shiloh, Part 2
10Plymouth and Norfolk
11Labors in Frecerick City
12White House
13Manassas and Antiem
14New Orleans
15Southern Battlefields
16Gettysburg
17Satterlee Hospital, Part 1
18Satterlee Hospital, Part 2
19Satterlee Hospital, Part 3
20Satterlee Hospital, Part 4
21The Fall of Richmond
22Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
23More about Nazareth
24Sisters of Mt. St. Vincent
25The Sisters of Mercy
26The North Carolina Hospitals
27Labors in the West, Part 1
28Labors in the West, Part 2
29The Stanton Hospital
30Sisters of St. Joseph
31Sisters of the Holy Cross
32Mother Angela, Part 1
33Mother Angela, Part 2
34Non-Catholic Tributes, Part 1
35Non-Catholic Tributes, Part 2
36A Lesson in Charity
37Appendix Part 1 An Innocent Victim
38Appendix Part 2 Medals for Sisters
39Appendix Part 3 Honored by the Queen
40Appendix Part 4 Veterans of the Crimean War
41Appendix Part 5 Poor Sister St. Claire
42Appendix Part 6 Lord Napier's Testimony
43Appendix Part 7 Very Rev. James Francis Burlando, C.M.
44Appendix Part 8 Mother Seton
45Appendix Part 9 The Sister of Charity
46Appendix Part 10 Sisters of Charity
47Appendix Part 11 The Angels of Buena Vista
48Appendix Part 12 Catherine Elizabeth McAuley
49Appendix Part 13 Clerical Veterans
50Appendix Part 14 Catholics in the War
51Appendix Part 15 The Sanitary Commission
52Appendix Part 16 The Blue and the Gray
53Appendix Part 17 A Miracle of War
54Appendix Part 18 Lincoln at Gettysburg
55Appendix Part 19 The Faith and the Flag
56Appendix Part 20 A Romance of War
57Publisher's Notice, Part 1
58Publisher's Notice, Part 2
59Publisher's Notice, Part 3
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