Biography of the founder of the American Red Cross.

Prologue -- Clara leaves North Oxford -- Service in the Civil War : 1861-1986 -- The search for missing men -- Lecturer -- Interlude and Europe -- The Franco-Prussian War -- Strasbourg, Paris -- Interlude, Grand Tour, England -- London, concluded ; Home, illness -- Beginnings of the American Red Cross -- Progress of the Red Cross, 1881 -- Victory : the United States accedes to the treaty of Geneva -- Floods of 1883, Sherborn prison -- Ohio and Mississippi River floods ; Convention at Geneva ; New Orleans exposition -- Earthquake, drought, cyclone, yellow fever -- From the Johnstown flood to the world's fair -- Sea Islands hurricane ; Armenian relief -- Cuba -- Galveston, growing dissensions, conference at St. Petersburg -- Events preceding Clara's resignation in 1904 -- Last years.