Angels of the Battlefield

by George BARTON (1866 - 1940)

Author's Preface

Angels of the Battlefield

"Angels of the Battlefield: A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War" chronicles the compassionate services of these dedicated women during the bitter and bloody U.S. Civil War. These accounts also offer some important historical details, giving some important insights into the people and events of the war. This is the Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. - Summary by Larry Wilson


Listen next episodes of Angels of the Battlefield:
A Lesson in Charity , Appendix Part 1 An Innocent Victim , Appendix Part 10 Sisters of Charity , Appendix Part 11 The Angels of Buena Vista , Appendix Part 12 Catherine Elizabeth McAuley , Appendix Part 13 Clerical Veterans , Appendix Part 14 Catholics in the War , Appendix Part 15 The Sanitary Commission , Appendix Part 16 The Blue and the Gray , Appendix Part 17 A Miracle of War , Appendix Part 18 Lincoln at Gettysburg , Appendix Part 19 The Faith and the Flag , Appendix Part 2 Medals for Sisters , Appendix Part 20 A Romance of War , Appendix Part 3 Honored by the Queen , Appendix Part 4 Veterans of the Crimean War , Appendix Part 5 Poor Sister St. Claire , Appendix Part 6 Lord Napier's Testimony , Appendix Part 7 Very Rev. James Francis Burlando, C.M. , Appendix Part 8 Mother Seton , Appendix Part 9 The Sister of Charity , Archbishop Hughs and the Sisters , Gettysburg , Harper's Ferry , In and around Richmond , In and around Washington , Labors in Frecerick City , Labors in the West, Part 1 , Labors in the West, Part 2 , Manassas and Antiem , More about Nazareth , Mother Angela, Part 1 , Mother Angela, Part 2 , New Orleans , Non-Catholic Tributes, Part 1 , Non-Catholic Tributes, Part 2 , Plymouth and Norfolk , Publisher's Notice, Part 1 , Publisher's Notice, Part 2 , Publisher's Notice, Part 3 , Satterlee Hospital, Part 1 , Satterlee Hospital, Part 2 , Satterlee Hospital, Part 3 , Satterlee Hospital, Part 4 , Sister Anthony at Shiloh, Part 1 , Sister Anthony at Shiloh, Part 2 , Sisters of Charity of Nazareth , Sisters of Mt. St. Vincent , Sisters of St. Joseph , Sisters of the Holy Cross , Southern Battlefields , St. Louis Military Hospital, Part 1 , St. Louis Military Hospital, Part 2 , The Fall of Richmond , The North Carolina Hospitals , The Orders That Participated , The Sisters of Mercy , The Stanton Hospital , White House