Identifier: angelsofbattlefi00bart (find matches)
Title: Angels of the battlefield : a history of the labors of the Catholic sisterhoods in the late civil war
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Barton, George, 1866-1940
Subjects: Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul North Caroliniana
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., : The Catholic Art Publishing Company
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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uently picked their way through the files of the dead and wounded, and on many occasions assisted in carrying the sufferers to the boatfc> These floating hospitals were unique in many ways, but they will ever remain memorable as the scenes of the Sisters greatest triumphs, where they did so much for the cause of humanity and where so many unwarranted prejudices were removed from the minds of brave men. Among the war Sisters none was regarded with more affection and reverence than this same Sister Anthony, who spent her last years near Cincinnati, surrounded with, all the loving attentions and comforts that should go with honorable old age. Her work for humanity was spread over a long series of years, and the heroic labors she performed during the war form but an episode in a busy and useful career. But it was a brilliant episode, one that deserves to be handed down to history and that brought fadeless laurels to a modest and unpretending woman. Sister Anthony O'Connell was bom in Limerick,
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SISTER ANTHONY SISTER ANTHONY AT SHILOH. 77 Ireland, of pious Catholic parents. She came with them to this country at an early age, and, in pursuance o fa long-cherished idea, renounced the world and was vested with the familiar habit of the Sisters of Charity. Her novitiate and earlier years in the order were spent at Emmittsburg, Md. Finally she was placed in charge of a community at Cincinnati. According to good people in that city who carefully watched her career, she displayed unusual devotion, business talent and self-sacrifice. Through her exertions an orphan asylum was founded at Cumminsville, where large numbers of friendless and homeless children were cared for and reared to a sense of their responsibility to God and man. When the civil war broke out Governor David Tod issued a call for volunteer nurses. A live to the necessities of the occasion. Sister Anthony relinquished the care of her asylum to other hands and, taking a band of Sisters with her, oliered their services. Their work wa

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