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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ect-ed out of three large dwellings in the then fashionablepart of the Capital City. It was so named from the factthat the most important of these three houses had beenthe residence of the famous Senator of that name. Sister M. Collette OConnor was in charge of this in-stitution, and was revered by all who became acquaintedwith her. She died at the hospital, July 16, 1864, and herremains were escorted to Baltimore and buried with mili-tary honors. One day President Lincoln visited the Stanton Hos-pital in Washington. Those who were fortunate to be pres-ent on this remarkable occasion received impressions thatshould remain ever fresh in their minds. None of theSisters had ever met the Chief Executive, but when atall, angular man with just the suggestion of a stoop aboutthe shoulders sauntered up the path leading to the mainentrance of the hospital they intuitively knew that itwas President Lincoln. The homely, wrinlded face, withits careworn appearance, and the patient, almost pathetic
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THE STANTON HOSPITAL. 251 eyes appealed at once to the tender sensibilities of theSisters. They knew little, and were without leisure toinquire, about the merits of either the Northern or South-ern side of the bloody controversy then raging at itsheight, but they had a keen appreciation of human suf-fering and human sympathy, and their hearts went outat once to this plain man who so uncomplainingly carriedthe woes of the nation upon his shoulders. The President went from cot to cot shaking handswith the poor patients and addressing them in the jocularmanner he frequently employed to conceal the anguishcaused by the sight of so much suffering. On occasionsof this character the very simplicity and naturalness ofthe President only served to bring his greatness intobrighter relief. The Sisters had a good opportunity ofobserving the man who had been called from his modesthome in Illinois to become ruler of the Republic at themost serious crisis in its history. They saw in him aperson who w

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