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Clara Barton: Civil War
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Clara Barton was a brave nurse during a war in the United States. She saw that hospitals did not have supplies. Soldiers needed medicine and bandages. Barton wrote letters to newspapers asking people to help. She went to the battlefield many times to give the soldiers what they needed.
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When the Civil War ended in the spring of 1865, Clara Barton was in her mid-forties. Although she had given three years of active service as a nurse on the front lines of the war, she was again ready to embark on a mission of mercy. She prevailed upon President Abraham Lincoln to advance her cause of establishing an Office of Correspondence with Friends of the Missing Men of the United States Army in Annapolis, Maryland.
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During the Civil War, Clara Barton sought to help the soldiers in any way she could. At the beginning, she collected and distributed supplies for the Union Army. Not content to sit on the sidelines, Barton served as an independent nurse and first saw combat in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1862. She ... cared for soldiers wounded at Antietam. Barton was nicknamed “the angel of the battlefield” for her work.
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Clara Barton's civil war work began in April 1861. After the Battle of Bull Run, she established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies 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.
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Clara Barton was born in Oxford, Mass., in 1821, the fifth and youngest child of a middle-class family that educated the children at home. At age 15 she began an 18 year teaching career. Barton was 39 and working in the Washington Patent Office when the Civil War broke out. She began organizing relief programs for the many Union troops stationed in the city, which led to her aiding the wounded from the 1st Battle of Bull Run.
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Clara Barton was born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest child of Stephen Barton, a farmer and state legislator who had served in the Revolution under General Anthony Wayne; she later recalled that his tales made war early familiar to her.
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