Nuns of the Battlefield (Signed)
(Providence): (Providence Visitor Press), (1927). First edition. Original cloth over boards. Octavo. [xii], 336 pages. Bound in dark green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board. Minor extremity wear, shallow bumps to fore corners. Binding sound, hinges not cracked. Contemporary prior ownership inscription on preliminary blank. Near fine.
A history of the nursing services of 21 orders of Catholic nuns during the Civil War. Interestingly, orders from both the North and South are included. These accounts and the names of the Sister Nurses were gathered to support a petition for a monument to these nurses, which was granted. The monument, by Irish artist Jerome Connor, was erected in 1924 at the junction of Rhode Island and Connecticut Avenues in Washington, DC.
Inscribed and signed by author Sister Ellen Ryan Jolly on front free endpaper. Includes a good bibliography.
Ref. NEVINS II, p. 129.
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