Publisher's Synopsis
George Barton (1866-1940) was an American author whose works include Angels of the Battlefield: A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War. This book, first published in 1917 and reprinted from the second impression of the following year, is dedicated to William J Flynn, Chief of the US Secret Service, in recognition of his efforts to rid his country of foreign spies during the First World War. Illustrated throughout.