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Clara Barton

Born on December 25, 1821 in Oxford, Mass., the youngest of 5 children in a middle-class family, Barton was educated at home, and at 15 started teaching school. . Clara Barton .

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Clara Barton

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  1. Born on December 25, 1821 in Oxford, Mass., the youngest of 5 children in a middle-class family, Barton was educated at home, and at 15 started teaching school. Clara Barton lara Barton's civil war work began in April 1861. After the Battle of Bull Run, she established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies Clara Barton Founder of the American Red Cross to wounded soldiers. In July 1862, she obtained permission to travel behind the lines, eventually reaching some of the grimmest battlefields of the war and serving during the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond. Barton delivered aid to soldiers of both the North and South. "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. "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.“ Clara Barton Judith Loredo 5th Pd.

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