Battlefield Angels: The Daughters of Charity Work as Civil War Nurses
Rada describes women religious who selflessly performed life-saving work in often miserable conditions and thereby gained the admiration and respect of countless contemporaries. In so doing, Rada offers an appealing narrative and an entry point into the wealth of sources kept by the sisters. Rada writes poignantly of the initial distrust accorded to the sisters by a population imbued with anti-Catholic sentiments and the eventual respect that they won from both citizens and soldiers for their work. --Catholic News ServiceThough Rada is known more for his historical fiction, Battlefield Angels is a non-fiction history book that reads more like a novel with its stories of the people involved in the war. --The Gettysburg TimesThough Rada is known more for his historical fiction, Battlefield Angels is a non-fiction history book that reads more like a novel with its stories of the people involved in the war. --The Gettysburg TimesBattlefield Angels is not a scholarly examination of war nurses. Rada tells the stories of the sisters who served from early 1861 the war's end. You will find the stories of their service on battlefields like Antietam and Gettysburg, on troop transports on the James River, POW prisons like Point Lookout in Maryland and hospitals like Satterlee in Philadelphia. The stories are told in a compelling narrative, though the story tends to jump around because it is told chronologically. --The Camp Chase Gazette