Galveston, TX, United States
Ursuline Convent in the Civil War Before the Confederate recapture of Galveston on January 1, 1863, the nuns of this monastery declined an evacuation offer. During and after the battle the east wing was used as a hospital for treatment of wounded from both sides. Young Lieutenant Sidney Sherman, mor
tally wounded, died here in the arms of Mother St. Pierre Harrington. The Confederate medical director's report said , "all our exertions would have failed but for the noble conduct of the ladies of t
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