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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion 33 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 8 0 Browse Search
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L. P. Brockett, The camp, the battlefield, and the hospital: or, lights and shadows of the great rebellion, The soldiers' guardian angel. (search)
gratitude and enduring remembrance than Miss Clara H. Barton. Of an excellent family in Massachusounded, when just at the moment of despair, Miss Barton, who, finding that locomotives could not be the place of danger was the place of duty, Miss Barton ordered her mules to be harnessed, and toovoring to make bandages out of corn husks. Miss Barton opened to them her stock of bandages and dr aught he could see, it must come to that. Miss Barton replied, that profiting by her experience aself-possessed and dignified in her manner, Miss Barton directed them to proceed, and stated to thebulances or the hard, jolting army wagons. Miss Barton with her wagon train accompanied the Ninth e soldiers replied promptly. No! No! said Miss Barton, that will never do. Government confiscatesr previous labors in behalf of the soldier, Miss Barton had exhausted her own patrimony and resource executive ability as have been granted to Miss Barton; and these gifts, added to a sound judgment[7 more...]
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)
urned 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 of the Baltimore mob of April 19, 1861, were carried to the Washington Infirmary for surgical treatment and nursing. Miss Barton proceeded promptly to the spot, a few hours after Miss Dix had begun her humane work among these sufferers of the Sixta copy of all the records of interments in that field of death, and could identify the graves of most of the dead men. Miss Barton was requested by the Secretary of War to accompany the young soldier to Andersonville, and to superintend his work. Thich could not be identified, were marked with suitable head-boards. A volume would be necessary for a full record of Miss Barton's war services. Miss Helen L. Gilson, a beautiful young woman of Chelsea, Mass., a niece of Hon. Frank B. Fay, had