There were probably surgeons and nurses long before there were military chieftains. Clara Barton.
Agrippina, wife of the General, distributed clothing and dressings to the wounded. Clara Barton.
Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. Emerson.
Scarcely had man made his first move in organizing the Red Cross when the jeweled hand of royal woman glistened beside him, and right royally has she done her part. Clara Barton.
Women are, by nature, much better fitted for nurses than men can be. Clara Barton.
Had there been need for them, the Red Cross could easily have recruited an army of twenty-five thousand nurses from the flower of American womanhood. Clara Barton.
Large organizations of women, the best in the country and I believe the best in the world, have faithfully labored with me to merge the Red Cross into their societies, as a part of woman’s work.
Clara Barton.
I have wrought day after day and night after night, so sorry for the necessity, so glad for the opportunity,—ministering with my own hands and strength to the dying wants of the patriot-martyrs, who fell for their country and mine. Clara Barton.
To the army of nurses, brave, generous and true who, either as auxiliaries at home or as nurses in the field, made up that magnificent array of womanhood ready for sacrifice on the altar of humanity and their country—no words of mine can do justice.