Identifier: angelsofbattlefi00bart (find matches)
Title: Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Barton, George, 1866-1940
Subjects: Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul North Caroliniana
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., : The Catholic Art Publishing Company
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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were then ten innumber, and, as usual, found plenty to do to place the sickin a comfortable situation. They had just accomplished (1). Rev. Louis Hippolyte Gache, S. J., was born June 18, 1817,in the department of Ardeche, France. His early studies were pur-sued at the College of Bourg, St. Andeole. At the outbreak of theCivil War he was appointed chaplain of a Louisiana regiment inthe Confederate army. Owing to losses in battle, sickness, etc., theregiment ceased to exist in two years, and Father Gache from then tothe close of the war was attached as chaplain to military hospitals.At the end of the conflict he returned to Grand Coteau, remainingthere a year. He was then transferred to the new province ofMaryland, now that of New York-Baltimore, becoming a professorin Loyola College. He has occupied various posts of responsibilitysince that time, and only last year (1896) celebrated his goldenjubilee or fiftieth year in the Society of Jesus, at the Church ofthe Gesu, in Philadelphia.
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MANASSAS AND ANTIETAM. 113 this when the city was evacuated, and on the 13th of Aprilthey left Eichmond for the Mother House at Emmittsburg. A terrible engagement took place near the AntietamRiver, in Maryland, not far from the Potomac, on the 17thof September, 1862. Not only were thousands on bothsides killed, but as many more were left wounded on thebattlefield, with the farmhouses and barns their only pros-pective shelter. As the fighting had been from twelve tofifteen miles in space, the towns of Boonsboro and Sharps-burg were selected for hospital purposes. The general incharge of the Maryland division requested the people toaid the fallen prisoners, as the Government provided forthe Northern soldiers and would have cared for aU if ithad enough for that purpose. The Superior of the Sisters of Charity, with the peopleof Emmittsburg, collected a quantity of clothing, provis-ions, remedies, delicacies and money for these poor men.The overseer of the community drove in a carriage to

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