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Clara Barton—representing the mercy and magnanimity of the nation. Columbus (Ohio)Despatch.
Clara Barton—her works of mercy in war and peace made her an international figure.New York Tribune.
Everybody’s business was nobody’s business, and the stricken victims perished.Clara Barton.
The door that never creaked a hinge for the feeble child of want may swing wide open at the thundering knock of the Marshal’s Staff.Clara Barton.
The incentive to help and heal another in distress is spontaneous, generally the result of sympathetic impulse and kindness—a thing of the feelings and consequently of sudden growth.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
“The other ladies could not endure the climate at Morris Island,” and, as I knew somebody must take care of the soldiers, I went.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
The idea of humanity in distress is not entirely modern;Alexander was accompanied in his march by the most famous physicians of the age.Clara Barton.
The idea of humanity in distress is not entirely modern;Alexander was accompanied in his march by the most famous physicians of the age.Clara Barton.
The idea of humanity in distress is not entirely modern;Alexander was accompanied in his march by the most famous physicians of the age.Clara Barton.
The idea of humanity in distress is not entirely modern;
Alexander was accompanied in his march by the most famous physicians of the age.Clara Barton.
Homer and Plato were so struck with Egyptian Science and skill that they declared the Egyptians were all doctors.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
Clara Barton.
It is probable that the first practitioners in common life were women.Clara Barton.
A wise physician, skilled, our wounds to healIs more than armies to the public weal.
A wise physician, skilled, our wounds to healIs more than armies to the public weal.
A wise physician, skilled, our wounds to healIs more than armies to the public weal.
A wise physician, skilled, our wounds to heal
Is more than armies to the public weal.
A sister and family followed me to Washington that I should not be quite alone in that slave city, for up to 1860 they bought and sold slaves at the Capital.Clara Barton.
When I think, I fear how supreme an International Court must have been to be able to induce the Southerners to liberate the slaves, or to convince them that “mudsills” and “greasy mechanics” and “horned yankees” are a people entitled to sufficient respect to be treated on fair international grounds.Clara Barton.
In ancient Greece, in the Roman Empire, in Europe through the middle ages, in the more modern chivalry of “Dixie,” among soldiers no slave, no servant—none but agentlemancarried a gun to kill. Killing in war time was the occupation of “gentlemen” only. For the first time in the history of the Centuries—in 1863—the ex-slave alongside the “gentlemen” on the battlefield, fought for human rights. It was at the battle of Fort Wagner on Morris Island; Colonel Shaw had led his “colored regiment” to that field of slaughter.
The first woman nurse on any battlefield, a veteran nurse at the front, was there,—the only woman present among the thousands of boys in blue. The chivalric southern soldiers hated the “mudsills,” the “greasy mechanics” and the “horned yankees,” but with a still more deadly hatred the “nigger in blue”—the ex-slave now marshalled in battle array against his former master. The onslaught there amidst the whizzing of bullets and bursting of shells is pictured as the “orgy of hell.”
The Colonel while leading that colored regiment was among the wounded. “Miss Barton, Colonel Shaw islying on a dissecting table. His leg has been taken off. His life is ebbing away; won’t you go to him?”
Bearing the bandage, water and sponge,Straight and swift to the wounded I go—
Bearing the bandage, water and sponge,Straight and swift to the wounded I go—
Bearing the bandage, water and sponge,Straight and swift to the wounded I go—
Bearing the bandage, water and sponge,
Straight and swift to the wounded I go—
Miss Barton replied: “Officers generally have friends enough to see that their wants are attended to, while the poor enlisted men are neglected. I will go to see the Colonel as soon as I have attended to my charges here.” When she was through with the wounded enlisted men, Clara Barton gave her attention to the Colonel, and through her services his life was saved.