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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 — John Shaqi

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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

Name: 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
Author: Young, Charles Sumner

Young, Charles Sumner

Barton, Clara, 1821-1912

After an eighty-mile ride bumping over stones and dykes and ditches, up
and down the hills of Maryland, Clara Barton arrived at the battlefield.
There, side by side, cold in death with upturned faces, were the brave
boys of the Northern blue and the Southern gray. In closing a
description of this battle scene Clara Barton says: “There in the
darkness God’s angel of Wrath and Death had swept and, foe facing foe,
the souls of men went out. The giant rocks, hanging above our heads,
seemed to frown upon the scene, and the sighing trees which hung
lovingly upon their rugged edge dropped low and wept their pitying dews
upon the livid brows and ghastly wounds beneath.”




                                  XVI


  Clara Barton carried on her work in the face of the enemy, to the
  sound of a cannon, and close to the firing line.

                                            Boston (Mass.) _Transcript_.

  So long as the Republic lives the name of Clara Barton will be
  honored. _Roswell Record._

  Clara Barton—Glorious Daughter of the Republic!

                                                     _The Buffalo News._

  Clara Barton performed work for wounded soldiers often at the risk of
  her life. PHEBE A. HANAFORD, AUTHOR.

  Clara Barton—right into the jaws of death she went, ministering to the
  wounded, soothing the dying.

                                CHAPLAIN COUDON (_of G. A. R._)
                                    _National House of Representatives_.

  Follow the cannon. CLARA BARTON.

  The soldier has been supposed to die painlessly, gloriously, with an
  immediate passport to realms of bliss eternal. CLARA BARTON.

  The soldier who has fallen in battle “with his face to the foe” has
  been regarded as a subject of envy, rather than pity.

                                                           CLARA BARTON.

  If wounded and surviving, the honor of a soldier’s scars has been
  cheaply purchased, it has been supposed, though he strolled a limping
  beggar. CLARA BARTON.

  Only a small portion of the thought of the generations of the past has
  been devoted to the subject of devising, or affording, any means of
  relief for the wretched condition resulting from the methods of
  national and international strife. CLARA BARTON.

  The pitiable neglect of men in war appears to have constituted one of
  the large class of misfortunes for which no one is to blame, or even
  accountable, assuming that wars must be. CLARA BARTON.

             Go card and spin,
             And leave the business of war to men. DRYDEN.

  I am a U. S. soldier and therefore not supposed, you know, to be
  susceptible to fear. CLARA BARTON.


            THE BRAVERY OF WOMEN—CLARA BARTON’S BRAVEST ACT

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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

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