Clara Barton
Barton, Clara - 1821–1912, American humanitarian, organizer of the American Red Cross, b. North Oxford (now Oxford), Mass. She taught school (1839–54) and clerked in the U.S. Patent Office before the outbreak of the Civil War. She then established a service of supplies for soldiers and nursed in army camps and on the battlefields. She was called the Angel of the Battlefield. In 1865 Read More...
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Lincoln's Daughters of Mercy (Chap. 11 "A Lady with a Flask")
by Marjorie Barstow Greenbie. 216 pgs.
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Nursing, the Finest Art: An Illustrated History (Discussion of Clara Barton begins on p. 255)
by M. Patricia Donahue. 535 pgs.
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Historical Encyclopedia of American Women Entrepreneurs: 1776 to the Present ("Clara Barton, 1821-1912" begins on p. 31)
by Jeannette M. Oppedisano. 283 pgs.
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Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience (1867) ("Clara Harlowe Barton" begins on p. 111)
by L. P. Brockett, Mary C. Vaughan, Henry W. Bellows. 800 pgs.
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