clara barton

     

When Galveston was devastated by a hurricane in 1900, she traveled 1,500 miles to head up the relief effort

Trivia about clara barton

  • In 1881 she founded the American Red Cross
  • This founder of the American Red Cross also founded one of New Jersey's first public schools
  • Think of this "Angel of the Battlefield", born on Christmas in 1821, when you look at the angel on your tree
  • Clarissa was the original first name of this nurse known as the "Angel of the Battlefield"
  • She represented the U.S. at the 1884 Red Cross conference in Geneva, Switzerland
  • She published "The Red Cross in Peace and War" in 1899
  • The birthplace of this founder of the American Red Cross is now a museum in North Oxford, Massachusetts
  • A clerk in the U.S. patent office, this "angel" went on to become the superintendent of nurses of the Army of the James
  • After learning about the Intl. Red Cross while visiting Europe, she founded the American Red Cross in 1881
  • "The Angel of the Battlefield"
  • In 1864 General Benjamin Butler appointed her superintendent of the Department of Nurses for the Army of the James
  • This American Red Cross founder personally directed the relief effort at the Johnstown Flood in 1889
  • She was nicknamed "Mother of the Red Cross"
  • She organized the first American Red Cross in 1881
  • The only angel Civil War Buffy met was this "Angel of the Battlefield" with whom she tended the wounded
  • At the end of the war, Lincoln assigned this battlefield nurse the task of identifying missing soldiers
  • In 1881 she established the first American Red Cross chapter, in Dansville, New York
  • A flag with a red cross on it flies over her Glen Echo, Maryland home, now a National Historic Site
  • This famous nurse was nearly killed when a bullet ripped through her dress at the battle of Antietam
  • In 1861 this 39-year-old began delivering supplies to the Civil War wounded
  • While living in Europe, she was asked to help introduce the Red Cross to America, & she did
  • Giving aid to Union Army surgeons, she said, "while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them"
  • As a girl in the 1830s she nursed her brother David through a 2-year illness (came in handy later)
  • In an 1898 book this woman, whose real name was Clarissa, explained all about "The Red Cross in Peace & War"
  • Pictured here, she was the first president of the American Red Cross
  • Born Christmas 1821, becomes angel on Civil War battlefields, becomes angel April 12, 1912