“Clara Barton – from portrait taken in Civil War and authorized by her as the one she wished to be remembered by ” (1890, Library of Congress)
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper on July 20, 1865:
Miss Clara Barton, daughter of Judge Barton, of Worcester, Massachusetts, who has obtained national repute by publishing a list of missing soldiers and by heroic deeds to the wounded, and even under fire, left Washington on Friday, on a Government vessel, with a party for the purpose of enclosing the area of ground at Andersonville where so many Federal prisoners perished from want and exposure, and of putting up head-boards at their graves. She conceives that she has a correct list of the deceased, and has accordingly obtained seventeen thousand head-boards for the purpose.
From The New-York Times August 2, 1865:
The Graves of Union Martyrs at Andersonville.; TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-SIX MURDERED AT THE “DEAD LINE.”
From the Washington Republican.
Miss CLARA BARTON, the humane annalist of our Union martyrs, who accompanied Capt. MOORE on his expedition to Andersonville to give Christian burial to the prisoners who died there, writes the following note to her uncle, JAMES BARTON, Esq., of this city:
ANDERSONVILLE, Ga., Wednesday, July 12, 1865.
DEAR UNCLE: We arrived here on the 13th [?], and are now in the active prosecution of our labors. Capt. JAMES M. MOORE, kindly detailed by Gen. D.H. RUCKER to assist me in the performance of our sad, though interesting duties, is now organizing our forces, and preparing the ground for the reception of our heroic dead. Two hundred and seventy-six were recovered yesterday from the ground known as outside of the “dead line,” or, as it was generally known to the public, outside of a prohibited line, beyond which they had accidentally strayed for the purpose of procuring a little fresh water, or the roots of shrubs or trees, to allay the pangs of thirst and hunger, and for so doing were barbarously murdered. The grounds are all selected for the cemetery, and in a few days I will send you a statement for publication, if the editors of Washington think it worthy of publication in their columns. Your affectionate niece,
CLARA BARTON.
