23. Richmond Campaign, battlefield, January 1 to April 3, 1865. 24. Annapolis Hospital, 1865, met starving, sick and wounded returning Federal prisoners and furnished relief. [Illustration: Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, the chairman of the ceremonies, with the first shovel of dirt. (The Chairman of the National Advisory Board, National First Aid Association of America) ] THE MEMORIAL TREE PLANTING TO THE MEMORY OF CLARA BARTON by the American Forestry Association at Glen Echo, Md., 3 P. M., Easter Sunday, April 16, 1922. The occasion—to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the passing of Clara Barton. [Illustration: Mrs. John A. Logan, with second shovel of dirt. Author of the Congressional measure creating May 30th a national holiday, known as Decoration Day; and sponsored in Congress by U. S. Senator John A. Logan. ] He who plants an oak looks forward to future ages, and plants for posterity. WASHINGTON IRVING. [Illustration: THE CLARA BARTON OAK Registered in the Hall of Fame for Trees, Washington, D. C. ] The American Flag The Glen Echo Service Flag The Red Cross Flag The Clara Barton Red Cross Home Pin Oak (Quercus Palustris), 8½ feet high, 5½ inches in circumference at the base; 3½ inches in circumference, 4½ feet from the ground. CLARA BARTON AND THE OAK _The Memorial Address_ The tree is the longest lived of all the lives of earth. Trees are in existence whose birth antedates that of our Christian civilization. The Cedar of Lebanon of the Old World is a part of the religious sentiment of the human race. The General Sherman Sequoia of the New World had battled against the warring elements of Nature for thousands of years before existed the warring forces of the Anglo-Saxons, on this continent. If there “be tongues in trees” every historic tree might say: “What I have seen and known is identified with the human race.” Every country has its trees, historic, sacred through association with an individual or with some great national event. Of the tree, historic, the historian writes, the poet sings, and in delineating its beauties the painter exhausts his art. He who plants an historic tree transmits history and poetry and art to posterity. The tree becomes a part of a country’s history.