Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/10/2026
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall
Categories
Librarian and history lover Dominish Marie Miller reveals the Civil War contributions of the Daughters of Charity.
The United States experienced a bloody and decisive civil war from 1861 to 1865. The enslavement of forcibly immigrated Africans was the root cause with branches touching on religion, economics, race, power and the relationship between the individual states and the federal government. Pro-slavery states ceded and formed a confederacy while remaining states are referred to as the Union. Pittsburgh provided a significant source of personnel, war equipment, armament, ammunition and supplies to the Union Army.
More than 230 Daughters of Charity served as nurses during the Civil War. This talk will trace the contributions of these Catholic sisters during and after the 1863 battle of Gettysburg. Their courageous work left a lasting mark on the town of Gettysburg and changed the anti-Catholic sentiment that permeated the local culture.
Address
300 Beechwood Avenue,
Carnegie,
PA
15106
United States