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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