To Bind Up the Wounds: Catholic Sister Nurses in the U.S. Civil War

by Mary D. Maher

Book Overview

The contributions of more than six hundred Catholic nuns to the care of Confederate and Union sick and wounded made a critical impact upon nineteenth-century America. Not only did thousands of soldiers directly benefit from the religious sisters' ministrations, but both professional nursing and Catholics' acceptance within mainstream society advanced significantly as a result. In To Bind Up the Wounds, Sister Mary Denis Maher writes this heretofore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807124397
• ISBN13: 9780807124390
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"