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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience 1 1 Browse Search
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L. P. Brockett, Women's work in the civil war: a record of heroism, patriotism and patience, chapter 8 (search)
cated by quotation marks. To this latter class pre-eminently belongs Miss Clara Harlowe Barton. Quiet, modest, and unassuming in manner and appearance, there is beneath this quiet exterior an intense energy, a comprehensive intellect, a resolute will, and an executive force, which is found in few of the stronger sex, and which mingled with the tenderness and grace of refined womanhood eminently qualifies her to become an independent power. Miss Barton was born in North Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts. Her father, Stephen Barton, Sr., was a man highly esteemed in the community in which he dwelt, and by which his worth was most thoroughly known. In early youth he had served as a soldier in the West under General Wayne, the Mad Anthony of the early days of the Republic, and — his boyish eyes had witnessed the evacuation of Detroit by the British in 1796. His military training may have contributed to the sterling uprightness, the inflexible will, and the devotion to law
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, XIV. Massachusetts women in the civil war. (search)
ially those that were remote and likely to be neglected; and paid all expenses from her own purse. She pursued her labors to the end, and did not resign her position for months after the close of the war, tarrying in Washington to finish many an uncompleted task for some time after her office was abolished. When all was done she returned to her life-work, in which she remained active and vigorous until death gave her discharge from her labors. Clara H. Barton was born in North Oxford, Worcester County, Mass. She was a teacher in her early life, in which profession she had a remarkable but very arduous career. Failing in health, she sought recuperation in Washington, and when she became convalescent a friend obtained an appointment for her in the patent office, which she held for three years. She was the first and at that time the only woman employed in the governmental departments at Washington. She was in that city when about thirty of the wounded men who were victims of the B