Memorials in Washington DC

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Represents nuns of different orders who nursed the sick and weak during Civil War. Inscription reads: (upper) "They comforted the dying, Nursed the wounded, carried hope to the imprisoned, gave in His name a drink of water to the thirsty."?(lower) "To the memory and in honor of / The Various Orders of Sisters / who gave their services as nurses on battlefields / and in hospitals during the Civil War."

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