THE LIFE OF CLARA BARTON
IN TWO VOLUMES

VOLUME I

Clara Barton

THE LIFE OF
CLARA BARTON

FOUNDER OF
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS

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

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

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	Leaves from Her Unpublished Autobiography	[56]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]