Category Archives: Emmitsburg

July 6, 2013 · 8:21 am

Highlights from Day 6 and 7 of “Our buildings and very earth trembled”

Satterlee Military Hospital

Images of Satterlee Military Hospital, Philadelphia

Two more sites where Sisters served. Top: sketch of General Hospital in Richmond. Bottom: Patient ledger from St. Mary's Hospital Rochester, NY

Two more sites where Sisters served. Top: sketch of General Hospital in Richmond. Bottom: Patient ledger from St. Mary’s Hospital Rochester, NY

Hospitals where DCs served

Images of other hospitals where Daughters of Charity served during the Civil War: Gratiot St. Prison in St. Louis, Charity Hospital in New Orleans, and St. Mary’s Hospital in Detroit.

Manuscripts showing the history of Satterlee Military Hospital and the journey to Gettysburg.

Manuscripts showing the history of Satterlee Military Hospital and the journey to
Gettysburg.

Coskery manuscripts

Manuscripts of Sr. Matilda Coskery’s Advices Concerning the Care of the Sick

Omnibus

A horse-drawn omnibus similar to this one transported the Sisters to Gettysburg.

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July 4, 2013 · 9:48 pm

Images of Days 3, 4, and 5 of “Our buildings and very earth trembled.”

Denise Gallo reading from Sister Matilda Coskery

Denise Gallo reads the “voice” of Sister Matilda Coskery

Exhibit tour

Carole Prietto leads an exhibit tour for Sisters and visitors

Sisters and generals

Left: Pictures of Sisters. Right: Pictures of generals who spent time in Emmitsburg prior to going to Gettysburg: Schurz, Howard, DeTrobriand, Sickles

Kate Hewitt and John Reynolds

Images of Kate Hewitt and Major General John Reynolds

Images and manuscripts describing the Sisetrs journey to Gettysburg

Scenes along the road to Gettysburg, 1863 and 2013. In the middle are original manuscripts which describe the journey made by the Sisters.

Civil War weapons

Civil War weaponry – bayonets, an unexploded shell, round ball, and minie ball. In the center, photo of a soldier with an amputated limb

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July 4, 2013 · 6:53 am

Images from Day 1 and 2 of “Our buildings and very earth trembled”

As of July 4, we are in Day 6 of “Our buildings and very earth trembled”. We will post more images and text from the “voices” presented over all 8 days once the exhibit closes. Below are images from the first two days. Thank you to all who have attended the exhibit!

Gallery 2

Gallery 2

Enke painting St. Joseph's Academy 1873

St. Joseph’s Academy Emmitsburg, 1873 – oil on canvas by Ludwig Enke. This is the property where the soldiers would have camped. It is now part of the National Fire Academy property, just south of our current building.

Daughter of Charity prayer books

In the foreground – A chaplet (rosary), two miraculous medals, a green scapular, and a prayer book from the Daughters of Charity.

Left: Letter from parent of St. Joseph's Academy student from the South asking the Sisters to keep his daughter safe. Right: St. Joseph's Academy in 1846

Left: Letter from parent of St. Joseph’s Academy student from the South asking the Sisters to keep his daughter safe. Right: St. Joseph’s Academy in 1846

Sisters cash book

Sisters cash book, showing the period of late June and early July 1863.

Ledger from St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, NY

Patient ledger from St. Mary’s Hospital, Rochester, one of many hospitals where Daughters of Charity served during the Civil War.

Center: reproduction newspaper with stories about the war. Left: Photo of George Armstrong Custer

Center: reproduction newspaper with stories about the war. Left: Photo of George Armstrong Custer.

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