The floating hospital on the Mississippi / drawn by Mr. Theodore R. Davis

Sisters of the Holy Cross

Hospital ships--Union--1860-1870

Harper’s Weekly

Mississippi River--1860-1870

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

Periodical illustrations--1860-1870

Wood engravings--1860-1870

War work--Catholic Church

Nuns as nurses

Women--1860-1870

Nursing--United States--History

Wood engraving of three maritime panels in the May 9, 1863 issue of Harper's Weekly. The top panel shows the Union steamboat on the Mississippi River with the caption: The Naval Hospital "Red Rover." In the middle panel, "The Sister" monitors a soldier in a hospital bed. Identified as a member of the Sisters of the Holy Cross who served aboard the hospital ship in the Civil War, the Catholic nurse is pictured beside a waterside grave scene. On the right side of the middle panel is the "Convalescent Ward" of the ship, where five men are sitting and standing. The "Ward" makes up the bottom panel of the illustration with occupied hospital beds on both sides of the ship and another nun tending to a sick soldier.

Davis, Theodore R.

Harper’s Weekly

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

1863

Sisters of the Holy Cross

Harper’s Weekly

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Is Part Of Civil War, Prints and Photographs Division

Photo, Print, Drawing

English

Still Image

https://www.loc.gov/item/89711528/

Illus. in AP.H32 (Case Y) [P&P]

cph 3b43362 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b43362

p. 300

1863

Mississippi River

1 print : wood engraving