CLARA BARTON

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CLARA BARTON

• Angel Of The
• Battlefield
• BY
• Luke Robbins
• Garrison Gay

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Childhood

• Born Clarissa Harlowe Barton on December 25th
  1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts
• Had four older siblings two brothers and two
  sisters
• Learned how to read by the age of 4
• Clara was a very shy child
• Parents enrolled her in boarding school in order
  to overcome her shyness
• At the age of 11 she found her true calling when
  her brother David was injured after falling off
  the roof of their barn

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Adulthood

• Received her teaching certificate from Clinton
  Liberal Institute for Females
• Established a free public school Bordentown, New
  Jersey in 1852
• Worked as a clerk in the Patent Office
• in Washington D.C.
• Gained the idea of helping wounded
• soldiers on the battlefield after seeing
• how many died on the way to the
• hospitals

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Role In The War

• Finally, in 1862, a man named Officer Rucker
  gave Clara permission to travel to the
  battlefields
• Brought her own medical supplies
• Served during some of the grimmest battles of
  the Civil War
• In 1864, Union General Benjamin Butler appointed
  her as the lady in charge. Presiding over the
  hospitals at the front of the Army of the James
• Abraham Lincoln put her in charge of searching
  for missing Union soldiers

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Impact On The War

• Barton distributed medical supplies to countless
  soldiers
• Helped identify thousands of lost Union soldiers
• Clara started the AMERICAN RED CROSS in 1881
• Barton was inspired after working with the Red
  Cross during the Franco-Prussian War
• Helps prepare and aid people in emergencies

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• Clara Barton
• Died
• April 12th, 1912
• She was 90 years old

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sOURCES

• http//www.historyplace.com/specials/calendar/docs
  -pix/clara-barton.jpg
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_Barton
• http//www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/images/Clar
  a-Barton.jpg
• http//library.thinkquest.org/5940/cchildhood.html
  
• http//library.thinkquest.org/5940/cadulthood.html
  
• http//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e4
  /ClaraBartonWcbyoung.jpg
• http//library.thinkquest.org/5940/colderadult.htm
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