Manuscript/Mixed Material Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; Undated
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Image 1 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … SPEECHES & WRITINGS FILE [*Articles & Other Writings Manuscripts Undated*]- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 2 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … The pleasure of the invitations with which you have so honored me to attend the reception to be given to our commanding General of the G.A.R. as well as to [be one…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 3 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … One International Medium through which all nations within the treaty transact their business and correspondence. On the breaking up of the International Convention of Geneva in Oct. 1864, it resolved itself into…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 4 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … and I remembered Andersonville with its 40,000 starving men when all the powers and pities of the world could not reach even with a bit of bread. I thought of the widows…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 5 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … 5. Instant help and what have we in readiness to meet them [with], save the good heart of our people, their impulsive and generous gifts with no organized system of collecting, receiving…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 6 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … With only the little experience of 6 months you will readily concede that it cannot be considered my work- It would be unjust arrogance in me to assume it- The noble women…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 7 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … [*3*] And yet it is to be remembered that not one fourth part of these women are guilty of, or convicted of any real crime, simply offences- Drunkenness and unseemly appearance upon…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 8 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … 11-A "aguinaldo" It is early to form, not to say, give an opinion, on a question so little understood. Aguinaldo is young- enthusiastic,- probably ambitious, and doubtless patriotic. he has fought for…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 9 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … 2 than the officious, or sentimental or maudling or designing portions of society commence steps for his pardon - and at length such engineering is brought to bear that it is worth…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 10 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … [*5. 15 not for print These are seven pillars of gothic mould In Chillon's dungeons deep and old, There are seven columns, massy and gray, Dim with a dull imprisoned ray. A…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 11 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … Like brules within an iron den But what were these to us, or him. These wasted not his heart or limb. My Brother's soul was of that mould Which in a palace…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 12 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … 4 nor had it entered into the mind of man to concieve the terrors that slavery had in store for American citizens, and American soldiers in the heart of their own country.…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 13 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … 6 In the old peace times, - Anderson, Ga, - for there was no "ville" then, was merely a way station on the railroad from Macon to Eufala. It lies in Sumpter…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 14 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … 8 Between these hills was a narrow valley - traversed by a small, sluggish, unwholesome rivulet, - Five open sheds at each end were the only buildings of any kind within this…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 15 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … There is an anecdote of our prison on Johnson's Island- related by a Confederate Surgeon, illustrating a more legitimate use of these precautions. A Rebel prisoner conceived the idea of letting himself…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 16 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … raved, prayed, and died, in the sand & vermin. From this so-called hospital, to the cemetery equally rude, the transition was natural and rapid; There the uncoffined dead were placed side by…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 17 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … of the subject at all to indicate in some way what caused and what constituted the peculiar horrors of Southern prisons, and of this one in particular. A little reflection will convince…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 18 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … Numbers froze to death- They hoisted what scantly garments they had to sereen them from the blistering rays of the summer sun, and in winter they imitated the herds and huddled together…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 19 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … were the private property of the diggers and did not mitigate the common suffering But what serves to aggravate there circumstances beyond all rational endurance is the fact that there was no…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 20 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … that a violent rain in mid summer overthrew a steep bank and let out a spring of the purest water directly under the dead-line- life and death in the most dramatic juxta-position.-…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 21 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … 22 and then kicked and killed um, because they got poor and weak and weak and couldn't get out of the way. And that they shot men just for fun, who hadn't…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 22 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … 4 entirely destroyed by them - and death would frequently have ensued from this cause alone - No part of the ration was served with regularity - and frequently whole days passed…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 23 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … Innumerable instances of this character are related. Some of which are perhaps exaggerated but the survivors bear with them a terrible record not to be gainsaid-of direct-and intentional barbar- ities. These tortures,…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 24 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … about that quarter designed exclusively for the sick and therefore called the hospital -- where nearly all were sick, and from the same causes - want of shelter - clothing - water…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 25 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … was given a daily ration of less than 10 ozs of solid food, always inferior and ill selected, often unwholesome. In our own military prisons, the smallest ration was 34 1/2 ounces-…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 26 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … either care I [?] over of this number would be a mortality [?] 7 23/4 per rent: to [?] one who entered the dreadful the cl[?] were nearly as 301 that he…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 27 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … (84) trees were cut-down, in part to form the stockade and buildings, and partly arth the avowed intention of depriving the Yankees of shade- But the whole region was heavily timbered and…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 28 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … [Please add the underscores to the initial "Give to them" phrase.] it shall be measi [measured?] out to you again had they never learned the laws of compensation [It must be so,…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 29 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … all dreadful as they were methinks you will find relief in the change Let us look into this for all soldiers were not prisoners some died when but lived and died upon…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 30 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … 36 (and I suppose day one mainly) very considerable supplies were furnished which never reached their ostensible destination. The rebel commissary Harrold, - who was summoned with his book to the trial…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 31 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … In all its features, commencing under their very eyes at Libby and Belle-Isle- and reaching to Texas, ought to have been well known, there is also abundant evidence that it was,- although…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 32 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … There can be no doubt that it was the policy of the Richmond Cabal. To render prisoners unfit for further service before they exchanged them. In a letter to Winder, read on…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 33 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … for revenge is an unworthy motive in individuals. and skill more in nations- Punishment- is out of place Till after trial and conviction; and cruelty or indignities are not necessary to security.…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 34 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … 46 on the Count of the United States?-- The one would be sure to condemn.- the other almost as sure to acquit- and from neither could a fair trial he expected With…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 35 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … Shed since 1860 we have seen as the natural print of that Upas tree of death where baleful branches were overshadowing the land- the logical result of that social system which strive…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 36 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … We are wont to attribute the chief suffering of these men to insufficiency of food, and while this is probably just, still to the mind of one who has looked over the…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 37 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … I watched the effect of a heavy fall of rain and in 30 minutes the entire hillside, which had been their sole abiding place were one rolling mass of slippery mud. Think…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 38 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … pitied. Your own cries for mercy heard - I charge you listen, and believe him - However definitely he may have spoken, know that he has not told you all - However…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 39 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … This document has handwritten numerical figures in a variety of positions all over the document. Only letters are: Anderson ville Beginning at the top left of the page: [upside down, facing the…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
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Image 40 of Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; … It was only in the autumn of 1869, whilst a visitor in Europe that I first learned for the existence of the International Society of Geneva for the aid of the wounded…- Contributor: Barton, Clara
About this Item
Title
- Clara Barton Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947; Articles and other writings; Drafts; Undated
Names
- Barton, Clara, 1821-1912.
Headings
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care
- - Andersonville Prison
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons
- - Women--Suffrage--United States
- - Women's rights--United States
- - Social problems--United States
- - Barton family--Correspondence
- - Hubbell family. Julian B. Hubbell family papers
- - American National Red Cross
- - Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army. Office of Correspondence
- - International Committee of the Red Cross
- - National First Aid Association of America
- - Geneva Convention (1864 August 22)
- - Ambulance service
- - Disaster relief
- - First aid in illness and injury
- - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Civilian relief
- - Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Medical care
- - Humanitarianism
- - Military nursing
- - Prisoners of war--Georgia--Andersonville
- - Spanish-American War, 1898--Civilian relief
- - Temperance--United States
- - War relief
- - United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Civilian relief
- - Manuscripts
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- MSS11973, box: 149; Microfilm reel: 105
- series: Speeches and Writings File, 1849-1947
Source Collection
- Clara Barton papers, 1805-1958
Repository
- Manuscript Division
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- online text
- image
IIIF Presentation Manifest
Finding Aid
Part of
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Contributor
Language
Subject
- Ambulance Service
- American National Red Cross
- Andersonville
- Andersonville Prison
- Barton Family
- Civil War
- Civilian Relief
- Correspondence
- Disaster Relief
- First Aid in Illness and Injury
- Franco-Prussian War
- Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army. Office of Correspondence
- Geneva Convention (1864 August 22)
- Georgia
- History
- Hubbell Family. Julian B. Hubbell Family Papers
- Humanitarianism
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- Manuscripts
- Medical Care
- Military Nursing
- National First Aid Association of America
- Prisoners and Prisons
- Prisoners of War
- Social Problems
- Spanish-American War
- Suffrage
- Temperance
- United States
- War Relief
- Women
- Women's Rights