Excerpt from Angels of the Battlefield: A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War Of course, there has been no intention of presenting a history, or even a sketch, of the war itself and the merest thread of its events has been introduced solely for the pur pose of making the narrative of the Sisters as consecutive as the scattered data permitted. The aim has been con stantly to present facts in an impartial manner. How far the writer has succeeded remains for the reader to judge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.