| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5707 |
| QUOTATION: | What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Clara Barton (1821–1912), U.S. Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross. As quoted in Angel of the Battlefield, ch. 20, by Ishbel Ross (1956).
Said c. 1909. |
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