Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1862

pg 462       occasionally contained as many as fifteen or sixteen hundred 
             wounded or sick soldiers at a time; and the most consoling 
             conversions were numerous around them, the number of baptisms in 
             the hospitals becoming greater every day.
                  During the course of this year the Sisters of Holy Cross 
             baptized with their own hands more than seven hundred soldiers, 
             after having properly prepared them and inspired them with 
             eagerness to belong to the Church of their good nurses.  Nothing 
             could be more edifying than the conversion and the last moments 
             of those brave soldiers, who thanked Heaven with their last breath 
             for having granted them the grace to find true life even at the 
             gates of death.
                  Two of those devoted Sisters fell victims of their zeal in 
             the same hospital, Mound City, as well as one of the Fathers sent 
             temporarily to help the many wounded men crowded together in this 
             vast building.  The two Sisters were Fidelis and Elise, and the