Women -- Biography; Women -- United States -- Biography
Barton, Clara:
nurse at eleven, 190-1;
success as teacher, 191-3;
cares for first wounded soldiers in Civil War, 193;
distributes supplies, 194;
receives permission to go to front, 195-6;
war record, 196-201;
appointed to search for missing, 201-2;
serves under Red Cross in Franco-Prussian War, 203-4;
starts Red Cross in America, 204;
its president for twenty-two years, 204;
service in disasters, 205;
honors paid her, 205-6.
_Battle Hymn of the Republic_, 159-63.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 132, 136, 144.
Bishop (Washington’s body-servant), 56-8, 67.
Burr, Aaron, 45, 104-5.
Chaboneau, Toussaint, 81-7, 91, 96-8.
Dale, Governor, 11, 12.
Declaration of Independence, 111, 120, 170.
Fritchie, Barbara:
saw four wars, 179-82;
marriage, 181;
her loyalty and faith when Civil War broke out, 182;
troops in Fredericksburg, 182-3;
different versions of flag story, 183-5;
Whittier’s poem, 186-8.
Fugitive slave law, 128-9, 138-40, 146.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 118, 122, 125, 131.
Hamilton, Alexander, 45, 63.
Harlem, battle of, 45-6.
Howe, General, 41, 43-6.
Howe, Julia Ward:
ancestry, 155;
carefully educated, 154;
a social favorite, 155;
marriage, 156-7;
longed to help in Civil War, 158;
how the _Battle Hymn of the Republic_ was written, 159-60;
how Chaplain McCabe popularized it, 161-2.
Hutchinson, Anne:
voyage to America, 18-9;
popularity, 20-1;
her meetings for women, 21-3;
church and state, 22-4;
trial and banishment, 24-8;
massacred by Indians, 28.
Jackson, Stonewall, 183, 187.
Jamestown colony, 7-11, 16-7.
Johnson, Jemima:
Indians attack frontier settlement, 72-3;
imperative need of water, 74-5;
volunteers to bring it, 75-6;
scheme succeeds, 76-7;
attack repulsed, 77-8.
Jones, Paul, 36.
Lafayette, 53.
Lewis and Clark Expedition, 81-5, 89-96, 99.
Libby Prison, 161.
Lincoln, Abraham, 149, 162, 201-2.
Livermore, Mary A.:
first-hand experience with slavery, 165;
helped husband in church and editorial work, 165-6;
organized and systematized relief work of Northwest, 167-72;
Sanitary fairs, 172-4;
first public speech, 175-7.
McCabe, Chaplain, 161-2.
Madison, Dolly:
girlhood in Virginia and Philadelphia, 101-2;
marries John Todd, 103;
death of husband and baby, 103-4;
popularity, 104, 107;
marries Madison, 105-6;
mistress of White House for sixteen years, 107, 113;
British attack Washington, 108-11;
saves Stuart portrait of Washington and Declaration of
Independence, 110-1;
adventures in flight from city, 111-3;
homage paid her, 114.
Madison, James, 104-8, 112-4.
Martineau, Harriet, 121.
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