Mother Angela Gillespie

Nuns as nurses

Sisters of the Holy Cross

Gillespie, Angela, 1824-1887

Nursing--United States--History

War work--Catholic Church

Women--1860-1870

Portrait photographs--1860-1870

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Hospital ships--Union--1860-1870

Photograph of the founder of the Holy Cross Nursing Sisters in her religious habit. Sister Angela Gillespie is wearing a white headdress and a pendant of the Sorrowful Mother also known as the Seven Dolors. The portrait is signed by Sister Bethania in the top left corner. As the supervisor of the eighty Holy Cross Sisters who served as military nurses on the U.S.S. Red Rover during the Civil War, Sister Angela Gillespie is also pictured holding her rosary beads and crucifix cross.

Unknown

HyperWar Online Library of Selected Images

Naval History and Heritage Command

Undated

Gillespie, Angela, 1824-1887

U.S. Naval Historical Center

Sisters of the Holy Cross

Courtesy of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, 1965.

Is Part Of HyperWar Online Library of Selected Images, U.S. Naval Historical Center

Photograph

English

Still Image

NH 85812

https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/pers-us/uspers-g/a-gillsp.htm

1861-1865

Mississippi River

Painting

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