Angels of the Battlefield A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War

CHAPTER X.

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WHITE HOUSE.

Sixty Sisters depart from Baltimore for the station in Virginia. Wounded and dying men upon transport boats. Nurses who shared every horror with their patients. Two Sisters who were martyrs to duty and humanity. The worn-out Sister of Charity buried with military honors upon the banks of the Potomac. Death of a deserter. 101