. Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war . pital, in Pittsburg. Death of the Superior of the Stanton with military honors. President Lincoln commends the Sistersfor their self-sacrificing labors. A warm tribute from Father Canevinhow the Civil war helped to wipe out religious bigotry. In the autumn of 1862 application was made by theauthorities in Washington to the Mother Superior of theSisters of Mercy for nurses to take charge of the wounded soldiers in the Stanton Hospitalin Washington City. According-ly, four Si
. Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war . pital, in Pittsburg. Death of the Superior of the Stanton with military honors. President Lincoln commends the Sistersfor their self-sacrificing labors. A warm tribute from Father Canevinhow the Civil war helped to wipe out religious bigotry. In the autumn of 1862 application was made by theauthorities in Washington to the Mother Superior of theSisters of Mercy for nurses to take charge of the wounded soldiers in the Stanton Hospitalin Washington City. According-ly, four Sisters from the motherhouse in Pittsburg were apx>olnt-ed for the work. They hastilyprepared and departed for thescene of duty, arriving in Wash-ington the day before Thanks-giving. Finding that the Stan-ton, a long row of one-storyframe buildings, was not quite ready for occupancy, theSisters remained for a few days with the Sisters of Mercy,who were in charge of the Douglas Hospital then inoperation in Washington. These Sisters were membersof the Baltimore Community, founded some years pre- (247). 248 ANGELS OF THE BATTLEFIELD. viously from the house at Pittsburg. In a short time thenew hospital was opened, and the Sisters repaired thither,and began their work by caring for one hundred andthirty wounded soldiers, who had just been carried infrom an engagement. On December 8 four more Sistersarrived from Pittsburg, making in all eight, which num-ber constituted the staff of Sisters engaged in the StantonHospital. Some of these did not remain until the closeof the war, but were relieved as circumstances requiredby Sisters from home. These changes were not madewithout necessity, as the health of several of the originalvolunteers was hopelessly shattered by the severe dutiesentailed upon them. To the bodily fatigue incident tothe care of so many patients was added much mentalanxiety, caused by the responsibility attending the chargeof grave cases. The successful issue in many s
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