Angel of the Battlefield
Subtitle: the life of Clara Barton
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Published: 1956
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 305
Copyright date: 1956
Subjects: Barton, Clara, -- 1821-1912
Description: This biography presents the life of the girl who became known as a fearless battlefield nurse during the Civil War and the founder of the American Red Cross.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 291-294.
Table of contents: title: Note	505	0	 	Part one. 1. A timid child; title: 2. Miss Barton teaches school; title: 3. "Mother Earth for a kitchen hearth"; title: 4. Lanterns in the cornfield; title: 5. Death in the sands; title: 6. The conflict ends; title: 7. Missing men; title: 8. South Bend to Corsica; title: 9. The Franco-Prussian war; title: Part two. 10. The Red Cross reaches America; title: 11. A forest fire; title: 12. Down the Mississippi; title: 13. Bismarck salutes the Red Cross; title: 14. Johnstown flood; title: 15. A hurricane sweeps Sea Islands; title: 16. A Yankee in Stamboul; title: 17. "I am with the wounded"; title: 18. Miss Barton meets the Czar; title: 19. End of an era; title: 20. Twilight; title: Appendix.; title: Letter from Clara Barton to Count Bismarck, December 9, 1870; title: International Committee for the Relief of Wounded Soldiers, Geneva, August 19, 1877 To the President of the United States, at Washington; title: The Red Cross of the Geneva Convention : what it is / Clara Barton; title: Letter from Gustave Moynier to Secretary of State James G. Blaine, Geneva, June 13, 1881; title: The American Association of the Red Cross Articles of Incorporation, October 1, 1881; title: Letter from Dr. Henry W. Bellows to Clara Barton, New York, November 21, 1881; title: Editorial from the Chicago Inter-Ocean, March 31, 1884; title: The women who went to the field [poem]; title: Letter from Rear Admiral W. T. Sampson to Clara Barton, Key West, Florida, May 2, 1898; title: Extract withheld on advice of friends from letter written by Clara Barton to President Roosevelt on January 27, 1903; title: Ida M. Tarbell on Clara Barton, American Magazine, April 1910; title: Clara Barton's personal list of public figures with whom she had dealings; title: Newspaper tributes to Clara Barton; title: Bibliography