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 of the Sisters were in danger from delirious fever patients, as well as from the epidemic. Defenseless and isolated, the Sisters still remained at their post even washing the linen at night and cutting the wood for the fires. The Doctors succeeded after awhile in getting an old man to care for the fires and carry water. He could do little else. After the first terror somewhat subsided, the people of Vincennes ventured a little and gradually came to the relief of the Sister heroines.

The Sisters who were in the Service at the Military Hospital in Indianapolis were: Sister Athanasius Fogarty, Sister Eugenia Gorman, Sister Mary Frances Guthneck, Sister Mary Rose O'Donaghue, and Sister Mathilda Swimley. Their devotedness, as we have seen from