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The Life of Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross

 By William Eleazar Barton
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By William Eleazar
Barton
Published 1922
Houghton Mifflin company
Nurses
Original from the University of California
Digitized Feb 7, 2008
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Text made available in compliance with Section 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976.

Contents

HER FIRST ATTEMPT AT AUTOBIOGRAPHY i
1
American Red Cross, Franco-Prussian War, Miss Anthony
THE BIRTH OF CLARA BARTON
6
CLARA BARTON, Clarissa Harlowe, ladies of quality
HER ANCESTRY
9
Samuel Barton, Ebenezer Learned, Clara Barton
HER PARENTAGE AND INFANCY
16
Sarah Stone, Stephen Barton, colts
HER SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS
22
Clara Barton's, playmate, Artichoke
THE DAYS OF HER YOUTH
36
phrenology, Arabian Nights, Know thyself
HER FIRST EXPERIENCE AS A TEACHER
50
four lads, nobody feel bad, little bright-eyed girl
LEAVES FROM HER UNPUBLISHED AUTOBI OGRAPHY
56
phrenology, John Stevens, Brine
THE HEART OF CLARA BARTON
76
Bordentown, Judge Hale, Clinton Institute
FROM SCHOOLROOM TO PATENT OFFICE
89
Eli Thayer, Robert McClelland, James Buchanan
THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM
107
Massachusetts, Worcester County, Zouaves
HOME AND COUNTRY
131
NORTH OXFORD, March 20, Fredericksburg
CLARA BARTON TO THE FRONT
172
Fairfax Station, Cedar Mountain, Armory Square
HARPERS FERRY TO ANTIETAM
191
Harper's Ferry, Fredericksburg, Union army
CLARA BARTONS CHANGE OF BASE
225
Dorothea Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Battle of Fredericksburg
THE ATTEMPT TO RECAPTURE SUMTER
238
Morris Island, Hilton Head, battle of Fredericksburg
FROM THE WILDERNESS TO THE JAMES
263
Belle Plain, John Brown, George Thompson
To THE END OF THE WAR
282
Union army, City Point, POINT OF ROCKS
ANDERSONVILLE AND AFTER
304
Andersonville, ANDREW JOHNSON, Horace Greeley
ON THE LECTURE PLATFORM
328
Dorothea Dix, Andersonville, Dansville

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Text made available in compliance with Section 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976.
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7 JAQUES AVENUE, WORCESTER, MASS - Page 190
FRYE, President 7 JAQUES AVENUE, WORCESTER, MASS. September I3th, 1911 To CLARA BARTON- The survivors of the Veteran 2ist Massachusetts Regiment, ...
Fredericksburg - Page 213
The memories of Fredericksburg remained with her distinct and terrible to the day of her death. She described the battle and the events which followed ...
more pages: 30 168 214 221 227 273 274 277 278 279
Annapolis - Page 306
Although she was backed by the authority of the President, it took the War Department two months to establish Clara Barton in her work at Annapolis ...
more pages: 2 137 138 142 143 149 151 314 335
Bordentown, New Jersey - Page xii
wrote a second section of about fifteen thousand words, covering her girlhood and her experiences as a teacher at home and in Bordentown, New Jersey. ...
more pages: 53 66
Terryville, Connecticut - Page 317
At the close of the war he returned to his home in Terryville, Connecticut, where he was immediately stricken with diphtheria. ...
Charleston - Page 252
Her work was not done in the shelter of any of the base hospitals in the general region of Charleston, it was with the advance hospital and under fire ...
more pages: 225 230 237 238 239 249
NORTH OXFORD, MASS - Page 145
But scarcely had she mailed it when she received this letter concerning her father: NORTH OXFORD, MASS., January 13, 1862 MY DEAR CLARA: I sat up with ...
Roanoke - Page 158
Hitchcock has taken back from Roanoke other papers relating to the same subject, which will doubtless be laid before you,.
more pages: 161
Sumter - Page 251
I was in an awful predicament, perfectly exposed to canister from Wagner and shell from Gregg and Sumter in front, and the enfilade from James Island. ...
more pages: 239
Clinton, NY - Page 59
in the liberal thought of my family, and preferring to remain in that atmosphere, I decided upon the "Liberal Institute," of Clinton, New York. ...
more pages: 2
Baltimore - Page 138
the train to understand that my baggage was to be taken through the city in the same train with myself (for we disconnect and come through Baltimore ...
more pages: 107 108 115 129 137 232
Conneautville, Pennsylvania - Page 200
Dunn, of Conneautville, Pennsylvania. Speechless both, for an instant, he at length threw up his hands with "God has indeed remembered us! ...
WASHINGTON, DC - Page 114
The letter to which she referred as having been written on the same day to Frances Childs. and containing war news, has not been found: WASHINGTON, DC ...
more pages: 68 96 119 136 141 192 228 306
Boston - Page 231
She broke away from it almost violently and went to live with her grandmother in Boston. There she fell under the influence of William Ellery Channing ...
more pages: 16 54 127 156 227 229 232
Worcester, New York - Page 148
You should be set down in the streets of Boston, Worcester, New York, or Philadelphia to-day, and only by a profusion of United States flags and ...
LOCKPORT, NY - Page 311
The second, six months later, is a protest from the no longer missing man, and the third is Clara's indignant reply to him: LOCKPORT, NY, April ijth, ...
New Sharon, Maine - Page 192
His name is William Diggles, nephew of Jonas Diggles, tailor of New Sharon, Maine. Authentic news of battles reached Washington slowly. ...
Auburn, New York - Page 322
at hard labor in the State Prison at Auburn, New York, fined three hundred dollars, and ordered to stand committed until the rolls were returned. ...
Georgetown - Page 100
He called to take me to Georgetown one evening last week, and during the evening he conversed respecting the approaching election. ...
New York - Page 59
My journey was made in silence and safety, and the third day found me installed as a guest in the "Clinton House" of Clinton, Oneida County, New York ...
more pages: 16 62 109 183 240 267 294 312 326
Manassas - Page 179
Immediately after the second Bull Run, or Manassas, followed the battle of Chantilly. It was a woeful battle for the Federal cause. ...
Philadelphia - Page 74
At least twice while she was teaching in that village, she made a round trip to Philadelphia on the steamboat John Stevens. ...
more pages: 16 75 148
Brooklyn - Page 60
Lucy Hall Brown, of Brooklyn, who only a year ago passed out through California's "Golden Gate," will be able to catch something of what I mean, ...
more pages: 263 344
Frederick, Maryland - Page 196
The number of wounded was not large, and these had all been taken to Frederick, Maryland. Only the day before, Stonewall Jackson and his men had ...
Savannah - Page 319
They reached Savannah on July 12, and remained there seven days, arriving at Andersonville on July 25. Her first impressions were wholly favorable. ...
Trenton - Page 82
But she finished her school successfully; went to Trenton and bought a silk dress. She filled the back of this book with a list of the English poets ...
Oxford, Mass - Page 313
25, 1911 -J Miss CLARA BARTON / Oxford, Mass. MY DEAR Miss BARTON: I am a stranger to you, but you are far from being a stranger to me. ...
more pages: 1
Cleveland - Page 241
Colonel JG Elwell, of Cleveland, to whom she reported, was laid up at this time with a broken leg. She had him for a patient and his gratitude ...
Schenectady - Page 344
On Saturday night she spoke in Schenectady, where she received fifty dollars, and found, what many a lecturer has learned, that it was not profitable ...
Atlanta - Page 295
We fired one over the fall of Atlanta; solid shot and shell with the guns pointed toward Petersburg. Funny salutes we get up here. ...
Charleston, South Carolina - Page 225
Believing that the most significant military events of that year would be found in connection with a campaign against Charleston, South Carolina, ...
Detroit - Page 16
The main army was then at Detroit under command of General Wayne, whom the soldiers lovingly knew as "Mad Anthony. ...
Cape Porpoise, Maine - Page 11
who arrived thirty-two years earlier, but, receiving a grant of land on the Piscataqua, removed to Portsmouth, and about 1666 to Cape Porpoise, Maine. ...
Watertown - Page 14
Isaac Learned was the son of Isaac Learned, Sr., of Woburn and Chelmsford, and his wife, Mary Stearns, daughter of Isaac Stearns, of Watertown. ...
Ohio, Illinois - Page 343
in Cooper Institute in New York, and in cities and moderate-sized towns through Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. ...
Leicester, Massachusetts - Page 24
Menseur of the Episcopal church of Leicester, Massachusetts, if I recollect aright, wisely comprehending the grievous inadaptability of the school- ...
Poughkeepsie - Page 343
Norton, Clara Barton opened her first public lecture, which she delivered at Poughkeepsie, on Thursday evening, October 25, 1866. ...
New Orleans - Page 312
As you are anxious of my welfare, I would say that I am just from New Orleans, discharged, on my way North, but unluckily taken with chills and fever ...
Saint Paul - Page 43
Not that our family, with its well-known liberal proclivities, could have the slightest objection on that score; still, like Saint Paul, if meat were ...
Reno - Page 197
There Hooker and Franklin and Reno were defeated with a loss of 325 men killed, 1403 wounded, and 85 prisoners. There were few prisoners as compared ...
GREENFIELD, MASS - Page 313
Letters like the following came to her to the end of her life: GREENFIELD, MASS., Sept. 25, 1911 -J Miss CLARA BARTON / Oxford, Mass. ...
Oxford - Page 80
Its immediate occasion had been a not very cheerful letter from friends in Oxford, and a discussion with the mother of a dull pupil who was troubled ...
more pages: 30 32 57 65 70 78 93 146 340
Papeete - Page 327
He died in November, 1910, and his monument is erected near Papeete on the Island of Tahiti.
Sutton - Page 13
He and his wife became members of the First Church in Sutton, and later transferred their membership to the Second Church in Sutton, ...
Algiers - Page 343
A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers; There was lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears ; But a comrade stood beside him, ...
Lancaster - Page 10
In the Wars of the Roses the Bartons were with the house of Lancaster, and the Red Rose is the traditional flower of the Barton family. ...
Portsmouth - Page 11
Edward's eldest son, Matthew, returned to Salem, and lived there, at Portsmouth, and at Cape Porpoise. His eldest son, born probably at Salem in or ...
Manchester - Page 10
The homestead was at Barton-on- Irwell, now in the municipality of Eccles, near the city of Manchester. Other Barton families in England are quite ...
Ipswich - Page 12
began in America with Edmund Bridges, who came to Massachusetts from England in 1635, and lived successively at Lynn, Rowley, and Ipswich. ...
Leicester - Page 13
Green, of Leicester, and practiced his profession in Oxford and in Maine. He had unusual professional skill, as well as great sympathy and charity. ...