Angel of the battlefield : the life of Clara Barton
Ishbel Ross (Author)
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
Biography
xi, 305 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
420062
Acknowledgments
Part 1:
1: Timid child
2: Miss Barton teaches school
3: Mother Earth for a kitchen hearth
4: Lanterns in the cornfield
5: Death in the sands
6: Conflict ends
7: Missing men
8: South Bend to Corsica
9: Franco-Prussian war
Part 2:
10: Red Cross reaches America
11: Forest fire
12: Down the Mississippi
13: Bismarck salutes the Red Cross
14: Johnstown flood
15: Hurricane sweeps Sea Islands
16: Yankee in Stamboul
17: I am with the wounded
18: Miss Barton meets the Czar
19: End of an era
20: Twilight
Appendix
Bibliography
Index