Sisters of the Holy Cross Marker

Nuns as nurses

Sisters of the Holy Cross

Historical markers

Hospital ships--Union--1860-1870

United States. Navy Nurse Corps

Morton, Oliver P. (Oliver Perry), 1823-1877

Gillespie, Angela, 1824-1887

Women--1860-1870

War work--Catholic Church

United States--History--Civil War

Nursing--United States--History

Indiana Civil War Centennial Commission

Color photograph of a 1965 marker in Mishawaka, IN, honoring the nursing contributions of the Sisters of the Holy Cross during the Civil War. At the October 1861 request of Governor Oliver P. Morton, Mother Angela Gillespie and 80 Catholic nuns in her order worked as military nurses and, in 1862, served on the U.S.S. Red Rover hospital ship. The information sign is navy blue with gold lettering and was erected by the Indiana Civil War Centennial Commission.

Hall, Duane

Indiana Historical Bureau Markers

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2013-09-12

Gillespie, Angela, 1824-1887

Morton, Oliver P. (Oliver Perry), 1823-1877

Sisters of the Holy Cross

United States. Navy Nurse Corps

Indiana Civil War Centennial Commission

By Duane Hall, HMdb.org

Is Part Of Indiana Historical Bureau Markers

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Marker Number 71.1965.1.

Database Locator Identification Number: p255042

Mishawaka (Ind.)

1861-1865

Sisters of the Holy Cross
Civil War Nurses
1861-1865

In response to Governor Morton’s call of October 1861, eighty Sisters of the Holy Cross under the leadership of Mother Angela served as military nurses. The Sisters became the forerunners of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1862 when they boarded the Red Rover, the Navy’s first hospital ship.

Erected by Indiana Civil War Centennial Commission 1965

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