Angels of the Battlefield A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War
CHAPTER XXIV.
SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH.
The Surgeon General applies for nurses to care for the sick soldiers in Camp Curtin, Harrisburg. Bishop Wood gives a ready assent. Their valuable Services at the State Capital. An official letter of thanks from Governor Curtin. Down the James River in the Commodore to bring the wounded from the battlefield of Yorktown. A poor soldier abandoned in an isolated tent. Rescued from death itself. A grateful patient. 258