One rode with Stonewall and his men, And joined his fate with Lee; The other followed Sherman’s march Triumphant to the sea. Both fought for what they deemed the right, And died with his sword in hand; One sleeps amid Virginia hills, And one in Georgia’s sand. The same sun shines upon their graves, My love unchanged must stay; And so upon my bosom lies, The knot of blue and gray. XXIII Clara Barton deserves first place in the living memory of the world today, and of generations to come. Jacksonville (Florida) _Times-Union_. She bore herself with a poise that lost for her no friends. Utica (N. Y.) _Observer_. She had a faculty for seeing what needed to be done, and how to do it. _New York Examiner._ She accomplished what crowned heads failed in. _Unity_, Chicago. Things came to me as if ordered by a world-controlling power. CLARA BARTON. Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness. ATHENÆUS. O God! that bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap. HOOD. The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy; And ’tis the crown of justice, and the glory, Where it may kill with right and save with pity. J. FLETCHER. Tact is born with some people. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THAYER. Tact is not a single faculty, but a combination of faculties. W. M. THAYER. What men call “shrewdness” and “Common Sense” usually signify no more than tact. W. M. THAYER. THE ENEMY, STARVING—TACT—THE WHITE OX To know is power, but the power may be latent. Tact is skill, ever alert. Tact knows what to do, when and how to do it. Queen Elizabeth had tact, unerring. Her long reign was a series of tactful events. Tact was the basis of the supremacy of the Elizabethan Age. Clara Barton had tact, unerring. Tact gave her position among rulers of nations, and likewise won for her the esteem of the lowly. Tact attracted to her unpaid Red Cross assistants, who cheerfully shared her privations. Through tact she retained her friends, made new friends, and to an extent unprecedented.