Gettysburg

Abraham Lincoln and the Daughters of Charity

by John Freund, CM | November 20, 2013 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments

The website of Provincial Archives of the Daughters of Charity offers a piece about Abraham Lincoln and the Daughters of Charity While we have no original Lincoln materials in our collection, Lincoln’s surviving papers do contain a few references to the Daughters of...

Gettysburg at 150 – Daughters of Charity

by John Freund, CM | June 30, 2013 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments

Sr. Denise LaRock does her own re-enactment on the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg and the Angels of the Battlefield. She explains... 150 years ago the Union soldiers encamped on the property of the Daughters of Charity in Emmitsburg, Maryland. ...

Daughters of Charity Civil War museum

by John Freund, CM | June 29, 2013 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family | 0 Comments

According to the local paper "Tourists are flocking en masse to the home of the peace-filled Daughters of Charity property in Emmitsburg, just as the U.S. Army did in 1863." The story continues... The new Charity Afire museum opened Friday at the National Shrine of...