The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol. 1 of 2) by Barton
Author
Barton, William E. (William Eleazar), 1861-1930
Title
The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol.
1 of 2)
Original Publication
United States: Houghton Mifflin Company,1922.
Note
Reading ease score: 65.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Contents
Her first attempt at autobiography -- The birth of Clara Barton -- Her ancestry -- Her parentage and infancy -- Her schools and teachers -- The days of her youth -- Her first experience as a teacher -- Leaves from her unpublished autobiography -- The heart of Clara Barton -- From schoolroom to Patent Office -- The battle cry of freedom -- Home and country -- Clara Barton to the front -- Harper's Ferry to Antietam -- Clara Barton’s change of base -- The attempt to recapture Sumter -- From the Wilderness to the James -- To the end of the war -- Andersonville and after -- On the le