Originally published in 1900 as a chapter of the author’s larger work, “Leaders of the 19th Century with Some Noted Characters of Earlier Times,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, describes in simple language the story of the social activist who served as a nurse during the U.S. Civil War and who founded the American Red Cross.Sample passage:She was always at the front. At Fredericksburg she slept in her tent, like the others, though it was in the dead of winter. At one time fifty soldiers were brought to her who had been wounded several days and had had no care. They were nearly starved and their clothes were frozen stiff. She ordered fires to be built, the snow to be cleared off and the soldiers to be laid on blankets around the fire. Then she ordered the men to pull down the chimney of an old house and heat its bricks to lay around the men. She could make comfort where there was nothing to make it of, for she had a head as well as a heart.
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