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- Title
Daughters of Charity: Courageous and Compassionate Civil War Nurses.
- Authors
McNeil, Betty Ann
- Abstract
The article examines the history of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul religious order as nurses during the American Civil war in 1861-1864. The Daughters of Charity provided nondiscriminatory care for Union and Confederate soldiers, and helped run hospitals in cities like Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., and Richmond, Virginia. Topics include a history of the order, which was founded through a union of the U.S. Sisters of Charity and the French Daughters of Charity in 1850, the Daughters of Charity's strong wartime nursing tradition, and how the nuns improved attitudes towards Catholics in the U.S.
- Subjects
DAUGHTERS of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865; NURSES; MILITARY hospitals; NUNS; RELIGIOUS groups; NINETEENTH century; HISTORY; HOSPITALS
- Publication
U.S. Catholic Historian, 2013, Vol 31, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
0735-8318
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cht.2013.0001