She could not refuse their appeals, and once more started in the wake of powder smoke, and cannon's roar.
"But I'll not start on that chapter of her life, for, if I did, I would not know where to stop.

It was there I met her, there she nursed me back to life; then I learned to appreciate her devotion to the cause of humankind.

This second long siege against suffering made her an invalid for many years.
"The other nations wondered why America refused to join them in their humane work.

All other civilised countries were willing to lend a hand.
But Clara Barton knew that it was because the people were ignorant of its real purpose that they did not join the alliance, and she promised that she would devote the remainder of her life, if need be, to showing America that as long as she refused to sign that treaty, she was standing on a level with barbarous and heathen countries.
"For years she was too ill to push the work she had set for herself.

When her strength at last returned, she had to learn to walk.