The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol. 2 of 2)Barton, William E. (William Eleazar)
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The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol. 2 of 2)
Barton, William E. (William Eleazar)
American National Red Cross -- Biography; Barton, Clara, 1821-1912; Nurses -- United States -- Biography
Appia, Dr. Louis, II: 5, 11, 120;
letters from Clara Barton, 121, 130 _seq._;
letter to Clara Barton, 124.
Armenia, II: 244.
Arogo, transport, I: 240.
Arthur, Chester A., expresses interest in Red Cross, II: 162;
recommends Red Cross treaty, 164, 188, 192.
Atlantic Monthly, quoted, I: 143.
Atwater, Dorence, I: 2, 317 _seq._;
arrested and imprisoned, 322 _seq._;
his list printed in New York Tribune, 327;
his subsequent life, 327.
Bardwell, Rev. Horatio, I: 57.
Barker, Miss Louise, I: 60.
Barton, Ada, I: 133.
Barton, Anna, wife of Edmund, I: 13.
Barton, Augustine de, I: 10.
Barton, Clara, her autobiography, I: 1 _seq._;
her ancestry, 9 _seq._;
her parents, 16 _seq._;
her childhood, 19 _seq._;
her timidity, 20;
her education, 20 _seq._;
her dog, Button, 26;
her fondness for verses, 26;
her skill as a horsewoman, 27;
her horse, Billy, 30;
her presence at the killing of an ox, 34;
her youth, 36 _seq._;
her illness in childhood, 37;
nurse of her brother David, 37;
ceased to grow at 12, 38;
learned to weave, 38;
how she kept the Sabbath, 39;
did not learn to dance, 42;
a child’s party, 43;
her books, 48;
her first experience as a teacher, 50;
her “waifish dresses,” 56;
at Clinton Institute, 60;
teacher at Bordentown, 62;
her home letters, 68 _seq._;
her verses on the steamboat, 75;
her lovers, 76 _seq._;
her too great sensitiveness, 20, 85;
her work in the Patent Office, 89 _seq._;
her styles of handwriting, 91;
her home letters, 94-101;
cares for soldiers of Sixth Massachusetts, 107;
at Battle of Bull Run, 119;
her relations with her family, 131 _seq._;
visit to New England in December, 1861, 136;
return to Washington with supplies, 137;
letter to Frances Childs, 141-44;
her father’s last sickness, 145 _seq._;
letter to her brother Stephen, 147 _seq._;
decided to give herself to work at the battle-front, 154, 157;
letter after Fredericksburg quoted, 154;
letter to Gov. John A. Andrew, 158;
her father’s death and burial, 161-63;
her disappointment concerning permission to go to the front, 164;
permission and passes obtained, 164;
started for the front, 167;
letter to Corporal Poor, 169;
at Culpeper, or Cedar Mountain, 172 _seq._;
another letter to Corporal Poor, 174;
at Second Bull Run, 175 _seq._;
letter to sister Julia, 192;
starts for Harper’s Ferry, 194 _seq._;
at Antietam, 199 _seq._;
at Fredericksburg, 212 _seq._;
letter to Vira Stone, 212 _seq._;
how she dressed at the front, 220, 221;
received a box from Anna Childs, 221 _seq._;
at Hilton Head, S.C., 225 _seq._;
witnesses futile attempt to capture Ft. Sumter, 238;
serenaded as the Florence Nightingale of America, 242;
her views of peace and patriotism, 245-48;
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