Clara+Barton

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 * 1) The youngest of 5 children
 * 2) Born in a middle class family
 * 3) "I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.
 * 4) She began teaching herself at the age of 15 in various elementary schools in Massachusetts and New Jersey.
 * 5) Prior to the civil war her greatest achievement was the establishment of a free public school in bordertown, NJ
 * 6) Her medical experience prior to the war was only caring for her invalid brother for 2 years.
 * 7) At the outbreak of the civil war, it was Clara who organized a relief for soldiers, starting her lifelong career as a nurse and humanitarian
 * 8) Clara learned that many of the wounded soldiers had suffered from lack of medical supplied, and she devoted her life to correcting the problem.
 * 9) She advertised donations to buy supplies, and began her own operation to distribute these supplies.
 * 10) Her operation a sucess, she was soon given a general pass by the U.S surgeon general, to travel with army ambulances.
 * 11) For 3 more years she traveled along with the army opetrations.
 * 12) She cared for the wounded in Fredricksburg, Virginia, so well that she attraced national attention
 * 13) In addition to nursing she formed a program, to locate any soldier that was reported missing in action
 * 14) Once she was able to determine their status, she would notify their families
 * 15) Upon the wars end, she established an information center which war-torn families
 * 16) That center also aided in locating missing soldiers
 * 17) and identified and marked missing graves
 * 18) 3 years later because of her varying responsabilities, she suffered a breakdown caused by exhaustion, and she went to Switzerland to recover.
 * 19) In Switzerland she became aware of the international red cross, that the U.S could not take part of because the monroe doctrine prohibited national treaties.
 * 20) Knowing that the US would benefit greatly by having a Red Cross, returned home and began a crusade to establish the Red Cross in America.

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 * 1) She devoted herself to nursing in the American Civil War(1861-65)
 * 2) Her nickname was "the angel of the battlefeild"
 * 3) In 1864 she was named the superintendant of all union nurses.
 * 4) She lead the american red cross for the first 26 years
 * 5) She wrote the us amendment to the constitution if the red cross
 * 6) Which provides for the distribution of relief not only in war but during natural disasters
 * 7) She served as president to the american red cross until 1904.
 * 8) Early on in the civil war, afforded few roles for women
 * 9) She saught to bring humanity and personal dignity to the war
 * 10) Although her relief activities lessened throughout the war, because she started to focus on finding and identifying missing men
 * 11) She identified nearly 11,000 men.
 * 12) When the civil war ended the continued her efforts
 * 13) Humanizing the horrors of the military suffering
 * 14) She worked tirelessly
 * 15) Her mission was not primerily that of a nurse
 * 16) She became incresingly proficient at obtaining and passing out provisions
 * 17) Her courage and humanity made her presence vital everywhere
 * 18) In 1864 she made her most influential connection
 * 19) Joining general benjamin f. butler with the army of james
 * 20) She lectured on her experiences until her voice failed in 1868

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 * 1) December 15, 1821- clarissa horlowe barton was born on christmas day in North Oxford, Massachusetts
 * 2) May 1839-she becomes a teacher
 * 3) 1845- founds a school for the workers of her brothers mill
 * 4) "In my feeble estimation, General McClellan, with all his laurels, sinks into insignificance beside the true heroine of the age, the angel of the battlefield."-Dr. James Dunn, surgeon at Antietam Battlefield.
 * 5) April 1861- the civil war breaks out. after the battle of bull run, she establishes an agency to distribute supplies to soldiers. She also nurses soldiers on the battlefields and is nicknamed the "Angel of the Battlefield."
 * 6) July 1862- she travels behind the lines and nurses men or both north and south during petersburg and richmond
 * 7) 1864- Union General Benjamin Butler names her "lady in charge" of nurses for the army of the James
 * 8) 1865- president lincoln entrusts her with the search for union army men missing in action. She founds a bureau to search for the missing men.
 * 9) 1869-Clara travels to Switzerland for a rest after doctors recommend she take a break
 * 10) 1870- while in europe, she becomes involved with the international red cross during the franco-prussian war
 * 11) 1873- she returns to the united states
 * 12) 1877- the red cross officials ask her to start the american red cross.
 * 13) may 2, 1881- she forms the first branch of the american red cross and serves as its president
 * 14) 1882- she urges the united states to ratify the Geneva Convention, then later that year it was ratified by congress
 * 15) 1892- she writes a poem called "The Women Who Went to the Field."
 * 16) 1893- a hurricane hits the sea islands afterwards, clara directs the "the sea islands relief" for 10 months after the hurricane
 * 17) 1898- the national society of the spanish war names her honorary president, but she resigns after Susan B. Anthony tells her the society does not accept african americans.
 * 18) 1904- Clara resigns from her job as president of the Red Cross.
 * 19) 1906- clara organizes the national first aid association of america
 * 20) April 12, 1912- clara dies in glen echo maryland

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 * 1) After the war she became a popular and widely respected lecturer
 * 2) When clara was 16, phrenologist lorenzo fowler advised her to become a teacher to cure her shyness.
 * 3) For 10 years she taught in a small town, that her brother owned a factory in
 * 4) In bordertown NJ she created a free school
 * 5) Once officials appointed a male principle in her place she resigned
 * 6) After she resigned she moved to washington and became the first women to work at a patent office
 * 7) she was the first women to work in a patent office.
 * 8) In the antietam battlefield clara gave surgeons a wagonload of bandages and other medical supplies that she had personally collected over the past year.
 * 9) When she was young her father told her stories of when he soldiered indians
 * 10) born on christmas day.
 * 11) "What could i do but go with them (the civil war soldiers), or work for them and my country? the patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins"
 * 12) throughout her life clara led by example, in an era when travel was strenuous and many men and almost all women stayed close to home she would travel
 * 13) She was always looking for challenges
 * 14) When she worked at the patent office she made the same salary as all of the men that worked there
 * 15) Her self appointed military duties brought her to some of the ugliest battlefeilds of 1982
 * 16) Cedar Mountain, Va.; Second Manassas, Va.; Antietam, Md.; and Fredericksburg, Va
 * 17) She started putting most of her efforts into finding missing soldiers
 * 18) She published lists of names in newspapers and exchanged letters with veterans and soldiers' families
 * 19) The search for missing soldiers and years of toil during the Civil War really wore her out
 * 20) Finally, by 1881 at age 60, she persuaded the government to recognize the Red Cross to provide aid for natural disasters