The Riverside Press

CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.

CONTENTS

VOLUME II

[I.] [First Knowledge of the Red Cross] [1]
[II.] [The Franco-Prussian War] [10]
[III.] [Her Illness Following the Franco-Prussian War] [55]
[IV.] [Returning Home] [77]
[V.] [The Years of Sickness and Recovery] [88]
[VI.] [The Forerunners of the Red Cross] [115]
[VII.] [The Years of Lonely Struggle] [120]
[VIII.] [The Birth of the American Red Cross] [144]
[IX.] [The Trials of a Treaty] [161]
[X.] [The Perils of Success] [172]
[XI.] [Clara Barton at Sherborn] [199]
[XII.] [The Red Cross in Peace] [215]
[XIII.] [Clara Barton at Home and Abroad] [259]
[XIV.] [Clara Barton in Cuba] [280]
[XV.] [Clara Barton’s Retirement from the Red Cross] [294]
[XVI.] [Clara Barton at Home] [307]
[XVII.] [Clara Barton’s Religion] [317]
[XVIII.] [The Personality of Clara Barton] [326]
[XIX.] [Clara Barton’s Last Years] [361]
[XX.] [Clara Barton’s Death and Resurrection] [369]
[Index] [381]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[Clara Barton at Eighty] [Frontispiece]
Photograph by Clara Barton Drew
[Facsimile of Prince Bismarck’s Letter] [32]
[Facsimile of Strassburg Diploma of Honor] [40]
[Decorations of Clara Barton] [256]
[Clara Barton’s Summer House at Oxford, Massachusetts] [308]
[In the Cemetery at Oxford: Grave and Red Cross Monument] [376]

THE LIFE OF
CLARA BARTON

CHAPTER I
HER FIRST KNOWLEDGE OF THE RED CROSS