Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

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.