The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol. 2 of 2) - William E. Barton

At the close of this brief and touching address, Dr. Barton spoke the words of committal; and, as he uttered, “Dust to dust, ashes to ashes,” dropped upon the lowered casket the large red roses, and pronounced the benediction.

Just then a mother stepped up and whispered, “My little girl was born in Clara Barton’s birthplace; in the very room where she was born. Will you baptize her, and will you do it now?”

“Bring her to me,” said the minister, “and I will christen her ‘Clara Barton.’”

So the name was bestowed in that hour upon another little girl, whose parents sought that the spirit that had lived in Clara Barton might live again in the life of their own daughter.

Two years from the following summer, the world witnessed a desolating war, and the months that followed wrought their inevitable destiny by plunging America into the seething conflict. Long before America formally entered the fight, the American Red Cross was active in measures of relief for the sorrowing nations of Europe. When, at length, the United States itself entered the war, the Red Cross blazed forth in every community between the oceans. Churches and town halls and private homes became dépôts where supplies were collected, bandages rolled, and workers trained. Hospitals, in our own country and along the battle-front, were erected and equipped. To them went thousands of American young women, each one of them wearing, on her arm or cap, the symbol which Clara Barton brought back to her own land after the close of the Franco-Prussian War. In their heroism and their deeds of mercy, Clara Barton lived again.

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INDEX

Acquia Creek, I: [168], [209], [273].
Alcott, Louisa M., I: [47].
Amidon, George H., I: [314].
Andrew, Gov. John A., I: [156], [159], [160].
Andrews, B. P., II: [162].
Anthony, Susan B., I: [1].
Appia, Dr. Louis, II: [5], [11], [120];
letters from Clara Barton, [121], [130] seq.;
letter to Clara Barton, [124].
Armenia, II: [244].
Arogo, transport, I: [240].
Arthur, Chester A., expresses interest in Red Cross, II: [162];
recommends Red Cross treaty, [164], [188], [192].
Atlantic Monthly, quoted, I: [143].
Atwater, Dorence, I: [2], [317] seq.;
arrested and imprisoned, [322] seq.;
his list printed in New York Tribune, [327];
his subsequent life, [327].

Bardwell, Rev. Horatio, I: [57].
Barker, Miss Louise, I: [60].
Barton, Ada, I: [133].
Barton, Anna, wife of Edmund, I: [13].
Barton, Augustine de, I: [10].
Barton, Clara, her autobiography, I: [1] seq.;
her ancestry, [9] seq.;
her parents, [16] seq.;
her childhood, [19] seq.;
her timidity, [20];
her education, [20] seq.;
her dog, Button, [26];
her fondness for verses, [26];
her skill as a horsewoman, [27];
her horse, Billy, [30];
her presence at the killing of an ox, [34];
her youth, [36] seq.;
her illness in childhood, [37];
nurse of her brother David, [37];
ceased to grow at [12], [38];
learned to weave, [38];
how she kept the Sabbath, [39];
did not learn to dance, [42];
a child’s party, [43];
her books, [48];
her first experience as a teacher, [50];
her “waifish dresses,” [56];
at Clinton Institute, [60];
teacher at Bordentown, [62];
her home letters, [68] seq.;
her verses on the steamboat, [75];
her lovers, [76] seq.;
her too great sensitiveness, [20], [85];
her work in the Patent Office, [89] seq.;
her styles of handwriting, [91];
her home letters, [94]-[101];
cares for soldiers of Sixth Massachusetts, [107];
at Battle of Bull Run, [119];
her relations with her family, [131] seq.;
visit to New England in December, 1861, [136];
return to Washington with supplies, [137];
letter to Frances Childs, [141]-[44];
her father’s last sickness, [145] seq.;
letter to her brother Stephen, [147] seq.;
decided to give herself to work at the battle-front, [154], [157];
letter after Fredericksburg quoted, [154];
letter to Gov. John A. Andrew, [158];
her father’s death and burial, [161]-[63];
her disappointment concerning permission to go to the front, [164];
permission and passes obtained, [164];
started for the front, [167];
letter to Corporal Poor, [169];
at Culpeper, or Cedar Mountain, [172] seq.;
another letter to Corporal Poor, [174];
at Second Bull Run, [175] seq.;
letter to sister Julia, [192];
starts for Harper’s Ferry, [194] seq.;
at Antietam, [199] seq.;
at Fredericksburg, [212] seq.;
letter to Vira Stone, [212] seq.;
how she dressed at the front, [220], [221];
received a box from Anna Childs, [221] seq.;
at Hilton Head, S.C., [225] seq.;
witnesses futile attempt to capture Ft. Sumter, [238];
serenaded as the Florence Nightingale of America, [242];
her views of peace and patriotism, [245]-[48];
her requisition for a flatiron, [248];
witnessed assault on Ft. Wagner, [248]-[50];
sick in summer of 1863, [250] seq.;
met with official arrogance, [254];
declined to criticize Dorothea Dix, [255] seq.;
her position in Patent Office, [258] seq.;
returned to Washington, [262];
at Worcester, [263];
listened to H. W. Beecher, [263];
her political views in 1864, [264]-[68];
listened to George Thompson, [269];
her change of opinion concerning John Brown, [269];
at Spotsylvania and Wilderness, [272] seq.;
returns to Washington to better care for soldiers, [278]-[79];
why she did not work under Commissions, [280];
returns to Washington in 1864, [282];
appointed superintendent of nurses, Army of the James, [282] seq.;
describes Fourth of July celebration, [283]-[85];
letters to Frances Childs Vassall and Annie Childs, [286]-[96];
describes death of her brother Stephen, [298]-[99];
her verses on “The Women Who Went to the Field,” [301]-[03];
drew her salary as clerk in the Patent Office till August, 1865, [304];
at Andersonville, [304] seq.;
appointed by President Lincoln to find missing soldiers, [305];
assisted in her work by Pres. Andrew Johnson, [307]-[09];
approved and passes issued by Gen. Grant, [309]-[10];
sometimes had greater success than missing men desired, [311]-[13];
letter from grateful soldier, [313]-[14];
four years in work for missing men, [316];
appointed by Secretary Stanton to visit Andersonville, [317] seq.;
devotes herself to release of Dorence Atwater, [321]-[25];
publishes his lists in New York Tribune, [326];
wanted to write a book, [328]-[33];
chose lecture platform instead, [342] seq.;
her finances, [340]-[41];
bought a new home, [347];
nervous breakdown, [348];
first voyage to Europe, II: [1];
first knowledge of the Red Cross, [2];
in Switzerland, [8];
in Corsica, [8];
in Berne, [9];
accepts invitation to serve Red Cross in Franco-Prussian War, [11] seq.;
at Basle, [12];
at Mülhausen, [14];
at Strassburg, [17];
at Carlsruhe, [19];
letter to Frances Childs Vassall, [23];
at Paris, [31];
at Lyons, [32];
at Carlsruhe, [40];
at Belforte, [44];
declines gift and receives annuity, [53];
letter to her sister Sarah, [55];
at Montbéliard, [56];
in Italy, [64];
in London, [65];
at Isle of Wight, [73] seq.;
in London, [77];
letter to Mrs. Vassall, [79];
letter to Bernard Barton Vassall, [81];
letter to Mamie Barton Stafford, [83];
returns to America, [84];
only person in America in 1873 wearing Red Cross, [88];
the nature of her sickness, [89]-[91];
letter to Mr. Dwight, [91]-[92];
at Dansville Sanitarium, [92] seq.;
letter to John D. De Frieze, [93];
letter to the Grand Duchess of Baden, [95]-[100];
recovery of health, [100] seq.;
letter to Mamie Stafford, [104];
letter to German professor, [106];
receives ovation on Memorial Day, [112];
letter to Dr. Louis Appia, [121];
his reply, [124];
further correspondence, [130] seq.;
first pamphlet concerning Red Cross, [139];
her first attempt at publicity, [145]-[46];
correspondence with Pres. Garfield, [147]-[49];
interview with James G. Blaine, [149] seq.;
interview with Robert T. Lincoln, [151];
letter from James G. Blaine approving Red Cross, [154];
her first public announcement of the Red Cross, [157];
elected president American Red Cross, [159];
organizes first local Red Cross society in America, [162];
interviews President Arthur, [163];
appears before Senate Committee, [164];
first work of American Red Cross, [169];
encounters opposition of rival organizations, [172] seq.;
visits State Department, [179] seq.;
sees the Red Cross Treaty, [179]-[81];
receives news of adoption of Treaty, [184];
in Mississippi floods, [196] seq.;
becomes matron at Sherborn, [199]-[214];
her love of the color of red, [218], [347];
Louisiana tornado, [220];
Ohio River floods, [221];
Texas famine, [224];
Mount Vernon tornado, [228];
yellow fever epidemic, [229];
Johnstown, [231];
Sea Islands hurricane, [240];
Armenia, [244];
in Constantinople, [248];
decorated by Sultan, [254];
attended International Conference at Geneva, [260];
introduced the “American Amendment,” [261];
letter from Louise, Grand Duchess of Baden, [264];
letter to Mamie Stafford, [268];
address at Wellesley, [270];
is pressed for money for expenses of Red Cross, [271];
accepts Red Cross Farm, [272] seq.;
in Cuba, [280]-[93];
receives thanks of Congress, [293];
at Galveston, [294];
at St. Petersburg, [296];
friction in Red Cross, [298];
Committee of Investigation, [300];
resigns from Red Cross, [300];
considers removal to Mexico, [301];
at home, [307]-[16];
her religion, [317]-[25];
her personality, [326]-[60];
her last years, [361]-[68];
her death, [369]-[74];
her funeral, [374]-[78];
her resurrection, [379].
Barton, Clarissa Harlowe, aunt of Clara Barton, I: [15].
Barton, David, brother of Clara, I: [20], [31];
his accident, [38];
his marriage, [53], [54];
letters of Clara to, [70] seq., [111], [225];
letter from, concerning her home life, [199], [200].
Barton, Dolly, I: [15].
Barton, Dorothy, sister of Clara, I: [132].
Barton, Dorothy Moore, wife of Dr. Stephen, I: [14].
Barton, Lady Editha, I: [10].
Barton, Edmund, I: [13].
Barton, Edward, of Salem, I: [11].
Barton, Elijah Moore, I: [14], [15].
Barton, Elizabeth Rich, wife of Stephen (brother of Clara), I: [132].
Barton, Gideon, I: [14].
Barton, Hannah, I: [15].
Barton, Hannah, wife of Samuel, I: [12].
Barton, Ida, I: [133].
Barton, Dr. John, I: [11].
Barton, Julia, wife of David, her marriage, I: [54];
her interest in Clara’s wardrobe, [56];
letters of Clara to, [94]-[100].
Barton, Sir Leysing de, I: [9].
Barton, Luke, I: [15].
Barton, Mamie, niece of Clara, see [Stafford, Mrs. John].
Barton, Martha, wife of Edward, I: [10].
Barton, Matthew de, I: [10].
Barton, Pamela, I: [15].
Barton, Polly, I: [15].
Barton, Samuel, of Framingham, I: [11], [12].
Barton, Samuel, nephew of Clara, letter to her, I: [145];
letter from her, [227].
Barton, Sarah, sister of Clara, see [Vassall, Mrs. Vester.]
Barton, Sarah Stone, mother of Clara, I: [17];
taught Clara to make pies, [36];
her death, [62];
Clara’s love for, [134].
Barton, Dr. Stephen, grandfather of Clara, I: [14].
Barton, Captain Stephen, father of Clara, I: [15], [16] seq.;
Clara’s reference in her letters, [111];
his children, [132];
Clara’s love for him, [134];
last sickness, [145] seq.;
encouraged his daughter Clara to go to the front, [154], [157];
his death, [161], [162];
funeral, [162].
Barton, Stephen, brother of Clara, I: [30];
letter of Clara to, [91] seq.;
in North Carolina, [101];
letter of Clara to, [102] seq.;
his marriage, [132];
letter of Clara to, [147] seq., [225];
his capture, rescue, and death, [297]-[300].
Barton, Stephen E., nephew of Clara, on Clara Barton’s lovers, I: [77];
letter of Clara to, [278];
in work for Cuba, [283], 370.
Barton, Rev. William E., visited by Clara, II: [366];
conducts Clara’s funeral service, [320], [376];
baptises a little girl at Clara’s funeral, [379].
Barton family, its origin and history, I: [9] seq.
Bartonville, N. C., named for Stephen, I: [132].
Basle, Clara Barton in, II: [11].
Bastian, G., II: [162].
Belle Plaine, Clara Barton at, I: [278].
Bellows, Rev. H. W., I: [3]; II: [2], [4], [117] seq., [165], [166], [353].
Berne, Clara Barton in, II: [9].
Bickerdyke, “Mother,” I: [296], [343].
Bismarck, correspondence with Clara Barton, II: [20].
Blaine, James G., II: [2], [149] seq.;
letter to Clara Barton approving Red Cross, [153];
letter from Gustave Moynier, [154];
endorsement of Red Cross, [157];
submits recommendation on Treaty of Geneva, [163];
Clara Barton’s letter to, [201], [202];
assists in Russian famine, [239].
Blaine, Walker, II: [159].
Bordentown, N.J., where Clara Barton taught, I: [53], [62].
Bowles, Charles S. P., II: [2], [117].
Breck, T. S., Asst. Adj. Gen., I: [310].
Bridges, Edward, I: [12].
Brown, John, I: [101]-[03].
Brush, A. P., II: [162].
Buchanan, President James, I: [98].
Bull Run, Battle of, I: [119] seq.;
Second Bull Run, [175] seq.
Bunnell, Mark J., II: [162].
Burnside, Gen. Ambrose E., II: [30].
Butler, Gen. B. F., Commander of Army of the James and friend of Clara Barton, I: [282];
failed to secure Cabinet appointment, [339]-[41];
appoints Clara Barton superintendent at Sherborn, [205].
Butler, M. C., II: [242].

Cameron, Simon, I: [128].
Canfield, Mrs. S. A. M., II: [159], [198].
Carlsruhe, Clara Barton at, II: [19], [40].
Cedar Mountain, battle of, I: [172], [173].
Chantilly, battle of, I: [179].
Childs, Anna, letter to, I: [104];
letters of Clara Barton to, [221], [290]-[96]; II: [32], [347].
Childs, B. W., I: [109].
Childs, Frances, see [Vassall, Mrs. B. B.]
Clinton Institute (N.Y.), where Clara Barton attended school, I: [157].
Colvin, Mrs. Mary, II: [162].
Conger, Omar D., II: [152], [167], [170], [198].
Constantinople, Clara Barton in, II: [248].
Corsica, Clara Barton in, II: [8].
Cuba, Clara Barton in, II: [280]-[93].
Culpeper, battle of, I: [173].