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Nurse and founder of the American Red Cross · 1821–1912 · Medicine

Carried supplies onto Civil War battlefields while the fighting was still going on, then spent years finding the missing dead by name.

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“I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it.”

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Who Clara Barton was

Barton was a teacher and a US Patent Office clerk — one of the first women employed by the federal government — when the Civil War began. She gathered her own supplies and took them directly to field hospitals at Cedar Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg, working under fire close enough that a bullet passed through her sleeve and killed the man she was tending. After the war Lincoln backed her Office of Missing Soldiers, which identified more than 22,000 men. In Europe she saw the International Red Cross at work during the Franco-Prussian War, came home and campaigned until the American Red Cross was founded in 1881. She led it for twenty-three years.

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What was it like working at Antietam while the guns fired?

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How did you trace 22,000 missing men?

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What did you see the Red Cross doing in Europe?

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How did you get Washington to take relief work seriously?

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What do families of the missing most need?

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