Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian: Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of AmericaYoung, Charles Sumner
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Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian: Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America
Young, Charles Sumner
Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
CLARA BARTON.
The history of Andersonville is the most sad, and at the same time the
most discouraging to our confidence in man’s inhumanity to man, of all
the episodes of the Civil War.—_Harper’s Weekly_, Oct. 7, 1865.
The name of Clara Barton will be held in grateful remembrance whenever
and wherever human needs are weighed in the scales of human
want.—_Washington Gardner._
[Illustration:
_By permission of “Harper’s Weekly.”_
CEMETERY AT ANDERSONVILLE, GEORGIA
The Department of Georgia, Grand Army of the Republic, early secured
title to the Andersonville stockade, which it later transferred to
the National organization, Woman’s Relief Corps, Auxiliary to the
Grand Army of the Republic. This body, after having purchased very
considerable additions and improved and beautified the whole through
a period of sixteen years, deeded the entire property to the United
States Government which, together with the cemetery, will be held in
trust perpetually as the most tragic and hallowed plot of ground
under the flag. WASHINGTON GARDNER, Post Commander-in-Chief, G. A.
R., in his memorial address, May 31, 1915.
The number of graves marked is 19,920. Scattered among the
thickly designated graves stand four hundred tablets, bearing
only the number and the touching inscription “Unknown Union
Soldiers.”—(Signed) CLARA BARTON, in an official report to the
people of the United States of America, in 1865.
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The winds will blow, the skies will weep,
Where fair Columbia’s heroes sleep,
And Clara Barton’s name is known
Where waves our flag or stands a throne;
The work she did fills every heart
Wherein affection hath a part;
A woman to her country true,
She marked the graves where sleep the Blue.
—From the dedicatory poem _Clara Barton_, by T. C. Harbaugh.
MY PRAYERS FOR YOU
_“Miss Clara Barton_:
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