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Clara Barton: Wars
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At the outbreak of the Civil War, Clara lived in Washington, D.C., where she worked at the U.S. Patent Office. Following the Baltimore Riots, upon the 6th Massachusetts Regiment arriving in Washington, it was Clara who organized a relief program for the soldiers, starting her lifelong career as a nurse and humanitarian.
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Clara soon quit teaching because people hired a man to be the head of the school that Clara opened instead of Clara. She worked at the U.S. patent office until the outbreak of the Civil War. During the Civil War, Clara advertised for bandages, socks, and other things that could help the wounded soldiers. She became head of the nurses involved in the Civil War.
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Barton delivered lectures on her war experiences, which were well received. She met Susan B. Anthony and began a long association with the suffrage movement. She ... became acquainted with Frederick Douglass and became an activist for black civil rights.
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During the Civil War, Barton risked her life to help the Union soldiers. She collected and brought supplies to the battlefields. Barton ... took care of wounded soldiers. She searched for soldiers who were missing. She became known as the “angel of the battlefield.”
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At the close of the war, at the request of the U.S. government Barton became involved in finding information on missing Civil War soldiers. She helped to identify and mark the graves of almost 13,000 prisoners buried at Andersonville, Georgia. She ... drew up lists and gathered information on other missing soldiers and had the information published in Northern newspapers, where friends and relatives of the soldiers might see it.
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In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln placed Barton in charge of the search for the missing men of the Union army. While engaged in this work she traced the fate of 30,000 men. When the war ended, she was sent to Andersonville, Georgia, to set up and mark the graves of Union soldiers buried there. This experience launched her on a nationwide campaign to identify soldiers missing during the Civil War. She published lists of names in newspapers and exchanged letters with soldiers' families.
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