. Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war . he Sisters. The offer accepted and the volunteers assigned to workin the hospitals in and around Louisville. Oh, Sister, put your headdown by me and dont leave me. The martyrdom of Sister Mary soldiers keep a vigil around the coffin with blazing torchesmade of pine knots. The main body of the Sisters of Charity were notalone in their devotion to the sick and wounded the trying days between 1861 and 1865 no bodyof men or women did more for sufferinghumani
. Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war . he Sisters. The offer accepted and the volunteers assigned to workin the hospitals in and around Louisville. Oh, Sister, put your headdown by me and dont leave me. The martyrdom of Sister Mary soldiers keep a vigil around the coffin with blazing torchesmade of pine knots. The main body of the Sisters of Charity were notalone in their devotion to the sick and wounded the trying days between 1861 and 1865 no bodyof men or women did more for sufferinghumanity than the patient, zealous Sis-ters of Charity of Nazareth, then, asnow, of Bardstown, Kentucky. A scoreof Sisters in that community offeredthemselves and their services withoutpay and without hope of earthly rewardof any character. It was in the springof 1861, the opening year of the civilwar, that Bishop Martin John Spaldingsent a formal communication to GeneralRobert Anderson, of Fort Sumter fame,then in command of the Department of Ken-tucky, tendering the services of the Sisters of Char- (182). SISTEES OF CHAEITY OF NAZARETH. 183 ity of Nazareth to nurse the sick and wounded services were willingly accepted, and the under-standing was that the Sisters were to work in the hos-pitals in and around Louisville. Three large manufacturing establishments in thecity of Tx)uisville had been placed at the service of theGovernment and were being used as hospitals at thattime. The rooms were long, and lines of cots extendedalong each side. The hospitals were divided into sectionsand each section was placed under the watchful chargeof a Sister of Charity. The system that characterized thethree establishments was such that no sufferer was neg-lected or without a nurse. This was in striking con-trast with the disorder and lack of system that had pre-vailed prior to the advent of the Sisters. There weretwenty-three Sisters in the three hospitals, in charge ofan army surge
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