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Battlefield Angels: The Daughters of Charity Work as Civil War Nurses

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“The country had only 600 trained nurses at the start of the Civil War. All were Catholic nuns. This is likely one of the best-kept secrets in our nation’s history,” Father William Barnaby Faherty once wrote. When the Civil War broke out, the Union and the Confederacy were prepared to fight, but they weren’t prepared to deal with the wounded that their fighting created. Even as many people volunteered to deal with the soldiers, the only ones with any experience were Catholics sisters. Some of the sisters, the most-experienced were the Daughters of Charity based in Emmitsburg, MD. When war broke out, they had already been taking care of the sick for decades. Then again, the brutality of the war would test even their abilities as they ran hospitals, served on troop transports and provided care in battlefield hospitals and ambulances. They even had their own Central House occupied by armies from both sides of the war. The Daughters of Charity had this sort of high level of consider Some of the government officials that they were allowed in the early a part of the war to move backward and forward across the border between the two warring countries. Nor did they betray that consider as they served officers and soldiers, Union and Confederate, with the same level of care. With their wide, white cornettes looking almost like wings, the Daughters of Charity did resemble battlefield angels. The sight of those wing-like cornettes told soldiers that relief was on the way; someone who cared for them was coming.

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