 Over one-third of the community, by then numbering more than 100, saw active service both on the eastern front in Ohio, Maryland, and Virginia, and on the western front in Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee.A request was made from Cumberland, Virginia, for nursing assistance, and eight sisters were sent to serve the wounded of both armies.A local banker, Joseph C. Butler, had referred a man with typhoid fever to St. John's and offered to pay for his care.