THE LIFE OF CLARA BARTON

FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS

BY

WILLIAM E. BARTON

AUTHOR OF “THE SOUL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN” “THE PATERNITY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN,” ETC.

With Illustrations

VOLUME I

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1922

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY WILLIAM E. BARTON

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.

TO

STEPHEN E. BARTON

HER TRUSTED NEPHEW; MY KINSMAN AND FRIEND

CONTENTS

VOLUME I

Introduction xi

I. Her First Attempt at Autobiography 1

II. The Birth of Clara Barton 6

III. Her Ancestry 9

IV. Her Parentage and Infancy 16

V. Her Schools and Teachers 22

VI. The Days of Her Youth 36

VII. Her First Experience as a Teacher 50

VIII. Leaves from Her Unpublished Autobiography 56

IX. The Heart of Clara Barton 76

X. From Schoolroom to Patent Office 89

XI. The Battle Cry of Freedom 107

XII. Home and Country 131

XIII. Clara Barton to the Front 172

XIV. Harper’s Ferry to Antietam 191

XV. Clara Barton’s Change of Base 225

XVI. The Attempt to Recapture Sumter 238

XVII. From the Wilderness to the James 263

XVIII. To the End of the War 282

XIX. Andersonville and After 304

XX. On the Lecture Platform 328