The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-03-03
Cinrn Hnrton ut Antietcm.

since the wonderful Red Cross iour-
ncy has been undertaken to Armenia
loving ana Old friends arcG filled with
"reminiscences and story of her early
work In our civil war Such fricn,Is
are many at the Capital
IN September 1852. Miss Barton left
Washington for the Blue Ridge win
wagon loads of supplies for the Sick and
wounded. She had ALREADY ministered
to the wounded ana dying from the hat
YES or Sun Run, Cedar Mountain and
Chantilly. When she reached Burn-
sides corps, after days OF dusty travel
ing. sleeping In her wagon nj night she
round the two armies lying face TO face
along the ridges of hills that bounded
the valley of Antie;am."
she ordered her mule teams TO follow
the lines of artillery. and through smoke
ana FOG of camp fire and the dark air
OF battle begun. she turned into n tall
cornfeld and unloaded her supplies in
an old barn
Confederate shot and shell flew over
her. In the barnyard and field men wera
bleeding, torn and dying. The surgeons
had used their last bandares and were
binding up wounds with corn husks. The
army supplies had not yet arrived. All
day long liss Barton worked unceasing
~ She fed the fainting and dying. all
the bread. dipped in wine. that she had:
moved them to the best posS.blp places.
found III the barn, meal. -four and salt
hidden there by the Conrcderates.
Then hogan the grucl-makimg; in old
kettles and before night Miss Barton had
twenty-five men AZ work with her They
carried buckets of hot Cruel from the
barn. and an old farm houses near by.
and across fields until the darkness fell
over the valley.
The porches Of the house were used
for operating tables. All day long. un-
der Il fierce battle Clara Barton and the
surgeons worked over the dying men.
One of the doctors. now an old man
In the West, says: Never shall forget
the terror which seized me. as locke
about for candles. The supplies had not
come. The armies had stopped their fir
ing. Darkness crcpt over the hills and
the valley! surgeon near me said hur-
rieGly: This bit of candle is all the
light we have for tonight. a tho,isa nd
suffering. dying, wounded men. They
will perish before the day dawnsm
GOOD God!. said. What q horror
lust then Clara barton came back to
her post with a big bucket of cruel and
said checrily: Doctor. we must llrht
up; we can't work or move about I'm the
dark 4 poor boy almost at her feet
said: Shall l die Observation-Disclosures
dark?'
Miss Barton replied joyously: 'Why
doctor. I brought thirty lanterns and
hundreds of candlssr learned a lesson
at Bull Run. We had n small supply. T
said after that, light must be my first
thought"
Both armies had lain down to rest.
The dead were moved to one side, that
the wounded might have care and night
settled down on the dreadful scene.
The lanterns were quickly lighted and
hung in the bare old rooms. on the porch
es, the fences and wagons. Candles
were flickering in all possible places and
the work of surgeons. doctors and helm
ers went steadily on. all through the
night.
darkness. said. as Miss Barton knelt be-
side him with the lantern on her arm
"Oh. | shan't die alone now. l can see
you!''
An old friend of Clara Barton's wrote:
1t was well worth a journey to Ante