Bibliography: Clara Barton

Primary Sources Online

Unless otherwise noted, the primary sources listed below were written by Clara Barton.

During the War

• “I leave immediately for the Battlefield” – Fairfax Station, August 31, 1862
• The Angel of the Battlefield Letter, 1862 written by surgeon James Dunn about Barton
• Notes on Fredericksburg, Virginia, May, 1864
• Letter to her cousin Vira, from Fredericksburg, December 12, 1862 (Page 27)
• Recording the Identity of Soldiers in her Diary, 1863
• Notes on Antietam
• 1892 poem, “The Women Who Went to the Field” 

The Missing Soldiers Office

• Clara Barton’s Letter to President Lincoln, asking to start the Missing Soldiers Office 
• Letter giving Barton permission to search for soldiers in Camp Parole, February 24, 1865(Page 31)
• Congressional Reimbursement for her search for Missing Soldiers, March 10, 1866
• Letters from people looking for their lost loved ones
  • Mrs. G. Zale, Searching for her Son
  • Mrs. J. B. Hurlbut, Searching for her Son | Transcription
  • Eugenica Hitchins, Searching for her brother 
    • Her brother’s reply
    • Clara’s retort
  • Mrs. P.H. Dutton, Searching for her Son
  • B. Lambert, Searching for a Friend 
  • Mrs. George Rush, Searching for her Nephew, and Clara’s Reply 
  • Jane Hudson, Searching for Thomas E. Hudson 
  • Luther K. Barrow, Searching for his Brother, in order to obtain his pension 
  • Mrs. R. L. Leach, Searching for her Son (Pages 1 and 2)
  • J.E. Reed, Searching for John Vleleudeuin after the wrong one was located 
  • Clara’s reply to a letter asking about a man that went missing at Wagner | Transcript
• Form letters Barton used
  • To reply to missing soldier requests
  • When prisoners of war were sent home, and her search became more difficult 
  • To reply to those who sent information

Andersonville

• Clara Barton’s Testimony about Andersonville, 1866 
• “A List of the Union Soldiers Buried at Andersonville,” Co-published with Dorence Atwater 

Post-War

• Clara Barton’s Papers at the Library of Congress, including:
  • Family Papers
  • Correspondence with Frances Gage
• The Red Cross of the Geneva Convention. What It Is, 1878
• 1892 poem, “The Women Who Went to the Field”
• 1892 Letters about Russian Relief
• America’s Relief Expedition to Asia Minor under the Red Cross, 1896
• Clara Barton for Women Suffrage, 1898
• Passport Application, May 15, 1869
• Our Work and Observations in Cuba, 1898
• Philanthropy at Johnstown, 1889
• Report of the Seventh International Conference of the Red Cross, 1902
• The Red Cross: A History of This Remarkable International Movement in the Interest of Humanity
• A Story of the Red Cross: Glimpses of Field Work, 1904
• The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton, Published in 1906
• The Story of My Childhood by Clara Barton, Published in 1907

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Primary Sources Offline

• 1866 Lecture at the Library of Congress
• Clara Barton Papers, 1812-1912, at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library
• Clara Barton Papers, 1822-1982, in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College

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Secondary Sources

• Ardalan, Christine. “Clara Barton’s 1898 Battles in Cuba: A Reexamination of her Nursing Contributions.” Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies Journal  12.1 (2010).
• Barton, William E., The Life of Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross. Vols. 1 and2. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1922.
• Brockett, L.P. and Mary C Vaughn. Women’s Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience. 1867.
• Buckingham, Clyde, Clara Barton: A Broad Humanity. Alexandria, VA: Mt. Vernon Publishing Co., 1977.
• Epler, Percy H. The Life of Clara Barton. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915.
• Fishwick, Marshall W., Illustrious Americans: Clara Barton. Morristown, NJ: Silver Burdett Company, 1966.
• Hamilton, Leni, American Women of Achievement: Clara Barton. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.
• Henle, Ellen Langenheim. “Clara Barton, Soldier or Pacifist?” Civil War History 24.2 (1978).
• Jones, Marian Moser. The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.
• Moore, Frank. Women of the War: Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice. 1866.
• National Park Service, Handbook 110: Clara Barton. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of the Interior, 1981.
• Oates, Stephen B., A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War. New York: The Free Press, 1994.
• Pierce, James Wilson. Story of Turkey and Armenia. Baltimore: R.H. Woodward Company, 1896.
• Pryor, Elizabeth Brown, Clara Barton: Professional Angel. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987.
• Video:  Historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor nominates Clara Barton as 1865 Person of the Year
• Ross, Ishbel, Angel of the Battlefield: The Life of Clara Barton. New York: Harper and Row, 1956.