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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the Trinity—in religion Sister St. Claire—that bright vision of charity flashing continually before usduring the long ride of agony in the barn near Rezonville. Your holy limbs are now resting in an unknown corner of Lforraine^—no longer your dear France—but your blessed memory will live forever in the grateful hearts ofthose you have died for! VI. LORD NAPIERS TESTIMONY. Lord Napier, who held a diplomatic position under Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, in Constantinople, during the Crimean War, gives the following testimony to the worth of the Sisters of Mercy: During the distress of the Crimean war the Ambassador called me in one morning and said: Go down to the port; you will find a ship there loaded with Jewish exiles, Russian subjects from the Crimea. It is jour duty to disembark them. The Turks will give you a house in which they may be placed. I turn them over entirely to you. I went down to the shore and received about 200 persons, the most miserable objects that could be wit-
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APPENDIX. 331 nessed, most of them old men, women and children, sunk in the lowest depths of indigence and despair. I placed them in the cold, ruinous lodging allocated to them by the Ottoman authorities. I went back to the Ambassador and said: Your Excellency, those people are cold and I have no fuel or blankets; they are hungry, and I have no food; they are very dirty, and I have no soap; their hair is in an undesirable condition and I have no combs. What am I to do with these people? Do? said the ambassador; get a couple of Sisters of Mercy; they will put all to rights in a moment. I went, saw the Mother Superior and explained the case. I asked for two Sisters. They were at once sent. They were ladies of refinement and intellect. I was a stranger and a Protestant, and I invoked their assistance for the benefit of Jews. Yet these two women made up their bundles and followed me through the rain without a look, a whisper or a sign of hesitation. From that moment my fugitives were saved. Noo

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