Angels of the Battlefield A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War
CHAPTER VI.
IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.
Dilapidated frame buildings serve as hospitals at the National Capital. A convalescent patient who was “tired and vexed.” A whole day spent in going from store to store in a vain attempt to purchase “one of those white bonnets” for a Sister. The soldier whose life was saved by being “shot in the U. S. A.” 62