. Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war . within this enclosure,and as their berries were now ripening flocks of mocking-birds were rejoicing in their branches and filling the airwith their own inimitable harmony. In a corner stood agrand old Pride of India, the first tree of the kind theSisters had ever seen; climbing roses clustered aroundthe windows, and numbers of little songsters made theirabode in the foliage. The house was fine and in perfect repair, having beenused as General Burnsides headquarters. It had notbeen ransacke
. Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war . within this enclosure,and as their berries were now ripening flocks of mocking-birds were rejoicing in their branches and filling the airwith their own inimitable harmony. In a corner stood agrand old Pride of India, the first tree of the kind theSisters had ever seen; climbing roses clustered aroundthe windows, and numbers of little songsters made theirabode in the foliage. The house was fine and in perfect repair, having beenused as General Burnsides headquarters. It had notbeen ransacked or rifled as most of the other houses hadbeen. Of the two large handsome parlors one was setaside for a chapel, and a beautiful one it became soonafterwards. In the last week of October the hospital at Beaufortwas vacated, and the sick soldiers were much more com-fortably settled in their winter quarters. The hospitalwas distinct from the Stanley residence and consistedof three houses and several newly-erected pavilions; anice shady path and a large garden separated thesefrom the Sisters THE NOETH CAROLINA HOSPITALS. 227 In December, 1862, General Foster, with a large de-tachment of the men under his charge made an attackon the town of Goldsborough, North Carolina, and almostruined it. An immense number of soldiers were wounded,and, as the doctors stores had not arrived, the surgeonshad no old linen or lint with which to bind up the woundsof the poor sufferers. For this reason they presented amost fearful spectacle. Some had their heads and faceswrapped in coarse cloth, and were so besmeared withblood that the sight was a painful one. Others, indeed the greater number, had either oneor both feet in a terrible condition, the feet having beenpierced with balls. There were broken legs, broken armsand one unhappy victim had both hands shot off, and thecondition of these agonizing wounds was something ter-rible. The first task of the Sisters was to feed the wretchedsuff
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