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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her house, orhouses, used as hospitals, and only over that plank walk didthose devoted women ever take any exercise or recreation.They literally gave themselves as nurses to the poor,wounded, maimed and sick soldiers brought to them dayafter day. And most beautifully did they fulfill thecharge. Many a soldier will never forget their tender, un-selfish care and devotion. I was witness myself to muchof it, as I was privileged to go from ward to ward. Many adying man blessed them as angels of mercy, almost lookingupon them as sent from the other world. One dear young fellow, who was almost reverencedby doctors and nurses for his patience and fortitude (youngGeorge Brooks, brother to the late Bishop Philipps Brooks),looked up into the sweet face of Mother Augustine, as shebent over to minister or to soothe the dear boy, with:Mother, thank you, Mother, and with such an ineffablesmile of peace. We could never tell if in his delirium hethought it was his own mother, but the peace on the boys
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FARRAGUT IN THE RIGGING. NON-CATHOLIC TRIBUTES. 303 face showed what his nurse had been to him. His sicknesswas short and death came just before the father reachedNew Berne. One dear young friend of mine, Sergeant CharlesHinkling, was sick under their care many weeks; finallybrought home to linger and die; but he and his familywere most deeply grateful to the kind Sisters for the ten-der care bestowed upon him in their hospital, especially bySister Grertrude. Sister Mary Grertrude is now the Mother Superior ofan institution in California, after a life of hard workamong the poor and suffering. I think she is perhaps theonly one living of those dear women I knew in New Berne. It was through the winter of 1862-63 that the Sis-ters were in New Berne. The next year the headquarterswere removed to Fortress Monroe and the Sisters returnedto New York. Through these thirty years or more—my brotherand many, many more who could have borne evidenceto the faithful work of the Sisters of Mercy in

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