. Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war . wearing themartyrs crown in death. The only charms they carried,as the soldiers soon discovered, were blameless lives, abso-lute devotion to duty and entire self-forgetfulness. There was one modest institution near the three largehospitals in Louisville where a great amount of good wasdone in an unostentatious manner. This was St. JosephsInfirmary, conducted by the Sisters of Charity of Naza-reth. This was generally filled in war times with woundedo£Bcers and other invalids connected with
. Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war . wearing themartyrs crown in death. The only charms they carried,as the soldiers soon discovered, were blameless lives, abso-lute devotion to duty and entire self-forgetfulness. There was one modest institution near the three largehospitals in Louisville where a great amount of good wasdone in an unostentatious manner. This was St. JosephsInfirmary, conducted by the Sisters of Charity of Naza-reth. This was generally filled in war times with woundedo£Bcers and other invalids connected with both good done there, though not quite as conspicuous aselsewhere, was lasting, and bore fruit in after years. CHAPTER XVIII. MORE ABOUT NAZARETH. Bardstown occupied successively by the Union and the Confederate Sisters start for Lexington under a flag of truce. A courteous letterfrom Brigadier-General Wood. Ex-Secretary of State Guthrie applies toPresident Lincoln for protection to the Nazareth Convent. A briefsketch of a famous school and some of its distinguished Bardstown, three miles distant from NazarethAcademy, in Nelson County, Ky., was occupied succes-sively by the Union and the Confederate armies. Some hostile engagements had takenplace in the vicinity of thetown and in the neighboringcounties, and as a result theplace was kept in a state of^S£i^k. ^-Z^ W^S feverish anxiety. The victor-ies and the defeats were at-tended with the usual result, killed and wounded men andsickness and suffering on all sides. Here again the peace-ful aid of the Sisters came at an opportune time. Fullyaware of the great need there was for experienced nurses,the Mother in charge of Nazareth sent a devoted band ofSisters to the Baptist Female College in Bardstown, whichhad been temporarily fitted up for hospital uses. On theirarrival they found that they had to care for a large number (192) MOEE ABOUT NAZARETH. 193 of disabled Confederate soldiers. They qui
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