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—in her 77th year—followed to the fever ridden tropics, to lead in the relief work on Spanish battle grounds.

Grand Rapids (Mich.) Herald.

In Cuba one saw only

Nodding plumes over their bier to wave,

And God’s own hand in that lonely land

To lay them in their grave. Clara Barton.

Mr. Cottrell, private secretary of Clara Barton, says: “Miss Barton was the means of saving thousands of lives in Cuba. She was a small, unostentatious woman, very quiet in her demeanor and spoke in a soft, sweet tone. Her habits were simple, but she had a great capacity for organization work.”

New Orleans (La.) Times-Democrat.

My post is the open field between the bullet and the hospital.

Clara Barton.