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Battlefield Angels: The Daughters of Charity Work as Civil War Nurses (Paperback)
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Battlefield Angels: The Daughters of Charity Work as Civil War Nurses (Paperback)
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"The country had only 600 trained nurses at the start of the Civil
War. All were Catholic nuns. This is one of the best-kept secrets
in our nation's history," Father William Barnaby Faherty once
wrote. When the Civil War broke out, the Union and the Confederacy
were prepared to fight, but they weren't prepared to care for the
wounded that their fighting created. While many people volunteered
to care for the soldiers, the only ones with any experience were
Catholics sisters. Among the sisters, the most-experienced were the
Daughters of Charity based in Emmitsburg, MD. When war broke out,
they had already been caring for the sick for decades. However, the
brutality of the war would test even their abilities as they ran
hospitals, served on troop transports and provided care in
battlefield hospitals and ambulances. They even had their own
Central House occupied by armies from both sides of the war. The
Daughters of Charity had such a high level of trust among the
government officials that they were allowed in the early part of
the war to move back and forth across the border between the two
warring countries. Nor did they betray that trust as they served
officers and soldiers, Union and Confederate, with the same level
of care. With their wide, white cornettes looking almost like
wings, the Daughters of Charity did resemble battlefield angels.
The sight of those wing-like cornettes told soldiers that relief
was on the way; someone who cared for them was coming.
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