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

JOSEPH WHEELER
I think it due Miss Barton that the government should give to her the highest possible recognition, and thanks.—Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, Major-General Civil War; Major-General Spanish-American War; U. S. Congress, 1881, 1882; 1885–1893; 1895–1900.

HARRISON GRAY OTIS
Clara Barton is one of the blessed ones of the earth, and her name will remain green in the heart of America.—Harrison Gray Otis, of California; Brigadier-General, Civil War; Major-General (Brevet), Spanish-American War; America’s Great Journalist.

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One’s blood runs cold and then mounts high in reading of the amazing feats of strength and courage of heart shown by this little lone woman. The Outlook.

Clara Barton—her personal service and self-sacrifice are beyond praise. Philadelphia Public Record.

The sum of all human agony finds its equivalent on the battlefield. Clara Barton.

We cannot desert our poor charge of humanity, but must stay and suffer with them if need be. Clara Barton.

And if you chance to feel that the positions I occupied were rough and unseemly for a woman—I can only reply that they were rough and unseemly for men. Clara Barton.

The sooner the world learns the better that the halo of glory which surrounds a field of battle and its tortured, thirsting, starving, pain-racked victims exists only in the imagination.