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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.