Daughters of Charity and the Civil War

In this time of tragedy it may be of interest to review how the Daughters of Charity functioned during the Civil War in the US. The Civil War separated the American Sisters of Charity geographically because their community had houses in the North and the South….in a response to a request from President Abraham Lincoln, more than 200 Daughters of Charity served on battlefields and in military hospitals during the Civil War. They served again in the Spanish American War at the end of the 19th century, when American Daughters in Puerto Rico shared supplies with Spanish Daughters nursing soldiers of the opposing army. Source

” … Rathbone declared: “The superiority of the Sisters of Charity as nurses is known wherever the name Florence Nightingale is repeated … the soldiers feel encouraged by their kindness and care”.”

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