Clara Barton spent a lot of time on the battlefields of the US civil war - but she wasn’t armed with bullets or bayonets. Instead she had bandages, food and medicine - all donations she had gathered, stored and transported to the fields of slaughter. Her interest in the care and comfort of wounded soldiers led her to push for the founding of the US Red Cross, and she became its first ever president. A truly remarkable woman, Clara Barton was known by the injured and dying soldiers she comforted as ‘The Angel of the Battlefield.
Sources/Further Reading
Oates, Stephen B: A Woman of Valour
Epler, Percy: The Life of Clara Barton https://archive.org/details/lifeofclarabarto00epleuoft/page/xii/mode/2up
Barton, William E: The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross
Charles Rivers Editors: Clara Barton - The Life and Legacy of the Civil War Nurse who Founded the American Red Cross
The Clara Barton Birthplace Museum https://www.clarabartonbirthplace.org/claras-life/
Wikipedia Clara Barton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton
Michals, Debra: Clara Barton https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/clara-barton
Encyclopedia Britannica: Clara Barton - American Humanitarian https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clara-Barton
American Battlefield Trust: Clara Barton https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/clara-barton
Barton, Clara: the Story of the Red Cross
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