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Our Women and the War, from Harper’s Weekly, September 6, 1862
Print of a wood engraving published in the September 6, 1862 edition of Harper's Weekly. Attributed to Winslow Homer, the graphic art features four scenes of women interacting with Civil War soldiers. The captions "The Influence" and "Of Woman" are labeled in the top left and top right sides of the print. In the top center scene, a group of women sits in the background with two sewing shirts and one darning a sock. On the middle right side of the engraving, a woman with her back to the viewer is washing and hanging shirts while four soldiers watch. At the bottom right scene, a caption reads "Home Tidings" and a seated woman writes a letter for a bed-ridden soldier with a bandage on his head. The bottom left scene is entitled "The Sister of Charity" and shows a Daughter of Charity nurse standing beside the hospital bed of a soldier. He is holding a cross and the Catholic nun's rosary beads. In the background of this scene, another Daughter of Charity is pictured beside an injured soldier. -
Nuns of the Battlefield, War Council Records, Box 86, Folder 61
List of 580 Civil War Sister-Nurses compiled by the War Department in Washington, D.C. At the time of the list's publication, there were 10 surviving war veterans. The 4-page document is organized into 21 communities of women religious who served on battlefields or in hospitals. Representing 11 distinct orders, the Catholic nuns are listed alphabetically, first by their specific community, then by their last name. Sister-Nurses with an asterisk by their names have had a white marble Government Marker placed at their graves at the petition of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The list also includes a photograph of an unknown cemetery with cross headstones and Government Markers.Tags Ancient Order of Hibernians, Cemeteries, Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Gravestones, Nuns as nurses, Nursing--United States--History, Sisters of Charity, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of the Holy Cross, The Catholic University of America, United States--History--Civil War, War work--Catholic Church, Women--1860-1870 -
Sister Mary Gonzaga Grace
Scanned copy of a 1900 book about Sister Mary Gonzaga Grace, Superioress of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. The older Catholic nun was in charge of the sister-nurses who staffed Satterlee Hospital during the Civil War. In the three-quarter length portrait, she is seated with her right arm resting on a book and is wearing a white cornette as part of her religious habit. Two sets of rosary beads and crucifix crosses are visible in the photograph. -
The Nuns of the Battlefield Monument, M St., NW, Washington, D.C.
Photograph of the Nuns of the Battlefield bas relief sculpted by Jerome Connor in 1924. The bronze panel is part of the monument erected by the Ladies Auxiliary to the Ancient Order of Hibernians of America. As a tribute to the Roman Catholic nuns who served as nurses in the Civil War, twelve women religious orders are represented in the sculpture.Tags Ancient Order of Hibernians, Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, Digital photographs--Color--2000-2010, Library of Congress, Nuns as nurses, Sisters of Charity, Sisters of Mercy, Sisters of the Holy Cross, United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.), United States--History--Civil War, War work--Catholic Church, Women--1860-1870 -
Staff and Nurses of Satterlee Hospital - 1865
Group photograph of the 1865 Satterlee Army Hospital nurses and staff in West Philadelphia, PA. 29 Daughters of Charity in their religious habits pose in front of the hospital alongside 4 Union servicemen in uniform and 3 male staff members. All of the men have mustaches and/or beards. The Catholic nun standing was the Superioress of the religious order, Sister Mary Gonzaga Grace. One of the patients is pictured in the hospital's window. Satterlee Hospital - West Phila. has been written at the bottom of the sepia-toned photograph.