Angels of the Battlefield A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War
CHAPTER XXVIII.
A LESSON IN CHARITY.
An incident of the war in which a gentle Sister of Charity and a stern military commander played the leading parts. “What do you do with your beggings?” The Red River campaign and its fatal results. The general in the hospital. “Did you get the ice and beef?” A grateful patient and his appreciation of the real worth of the Sisters. 315
APPENDIX.
An Innocent Victim 324 Medals for Sisters 324 Honored by the Queen 325 Veterans of the Crimean War 326 Poor Sister St. Claire 327 Lord Napier’s Testimony 330 Very Rev. James Francis Burlando, C. M. 335 Mother Seton 340 The Sister of Charity 345 Sisters of Charity 348 The Angels of Buena Vista 353 Catherine Elizabeth McAuley 356 Clerical Veterans 360 Catholics in the War 363 The Sanitary Commission 370 The Blue and the Gray 374 A Miracle of the War 376 Lincoln at Gettysburg 378 The Faith and the Flag 380 A Romance of the War 388