Clara Barton is a symbol of compassion, kindness and selflessness. Because of these qualities, she created the Red Cross, which has helped countless people throughout history. She was not only a humanitarian, but a nurse and a feminist. However, Clara’s life was not only devoted to aiding sick and injured soldiers through the Red Cross. Before this healthcare organization was even created, Clara worked hard at teaching. She also had a job at the U.S. Patent Office. When the Civil War began, Clara started to follow her interest in becoming a nurse and she devoted her caring nature to helping others.
Around 1851, Clara’s teaching career progressed. Between 1850 and 1851, she spent a year at the Clinton Liberal Institute, Oneida County, New York to further her own education. After her mother, Sarah Barton, died,
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Clara moved to Highstown, New Jersey and resumed her teaching career. She established the first free public school in Bordentown, New Jersey. Many people enrolled and it was a successful school. Unfortunately, a male principle was chosen instead of Clara. Due to this, Clara left the school and Bordentown, along with her teaching career. Soon after, Clara found a job as a recording clerk in Washington D.C. at the U.S. Patent Office. She worked under the Commissioner of Patents, Charles Mason. She had a salary high enough that it was considered to be equal to the men that she worked with. As stated on nps.gov, “Her salary, $1,400 per anum, equalled those of the men she worked with.” This was a rare job for a woman because of its pay and success. With the amount she was earning, she basically was at the same level as men in the work force. When James Buchanan took over the Patent Office, Clara moved back to Massachusetts to see her family. On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began in Ft. Sumter, California. Clara heard about riots in Baltimore. She will later realize that the 6th Massachusetts had been attacked by mobs. When she found many of the soldiers wounded and a few dead, Clara went out of her way to help these men. When she found many of the soldiers wounded and a few dead, Clara went out of her way to help these men. She tended to wounds and helped the soldiers get back on track. The Battle of Bull Run began on July 21, 1861.
Many wounded soldiers were sent to Washington D.C. There, Clara had the chance to tend to them and aid their wounds. When she found many of the soldiers wounded and a few dead, Clara went out of her way to help these men. She tended to wounds and helped the soldiers get back on track. When she found many of the soldiers wounded and a few dead, Clara went out of her way to help these men. She tended to wounds and helped the soldiers get back on track. When she found many of the soldiers wounded and a few dead, Clara went out of her way to help these men. She tended to wounds and helped the soldiers get back on track.
Clara was first documented as serving in the field during the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 9, 1862. She arrived on August 13 and stayed for two days and two nights. During the battle, Clara spent her time tending to the wounded. She also assisted and helped at a field hospital for Confederate prisoners. Additionally, Clara also helped at the Battle of Chantilly, Virginia. She spent her time tending to the wounded and also prepared for the evacuation of the injured to Washington D.C. by
train. During the Battle of Antietam, Maryland, on September 17, 1862, Clara continued helping the soldiers. She provided surgeons with medical supplies that they needed. However, she was also nearly killed while tending to a wounded soldier. A bullet went through the sleeve of her dress and killed the soldier who she was caring for. She managed to extract the bullet from his cheek, but could not revive him. She provided the medications and supplies to the surgeons who were operating on the soldiers. Throughout this time, Clara also encountered many hardships. She had to deal with deaths of multiple family members while tending to sick, injured, and dying patients. Her sister, Dolly, died in 1846, as well as her mother in 1851 and her father in 1862. However, these unfortunate events did not negatively affect Clara’s motivation to help others. In fact, her family members influenced her enough to continue motivating her even after their deaths. In addition to teaching, aiding soldiers in various battles, and creating the Red Cross in 1881, Clara also participated in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. On November 30, 1867, Clara met Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and joined the Suffrage movement with them. Clara Barton will be forever remembered and etched into American history for all her hard work and motivation. It has saved thousands, if not millions, of people.We, as Americans, are indebted to her selflessness and caring nature that has provided proper care for the many wounded soldiers, which was then extended to all Americans. We remain grateful for one woman who has saved countless men, women, and children throughout American history.
The letter never made it to her before she died. She did many things for theUnion army when they were basically at her doorstep. She filled their canteens, she baked them bread,and she made them food. She died whilst preparing bread for Union soldiers.
Born on December 25, 1921, Clara grew up in a family of four children, all at least 11 years older than her (Pryor, 3). Clara’s childhood was more of one that had several babysitters than siblings, each taking part of her education. Clara excelled at the academic part of life, but was very timid among strangers. School was not a particularly happy point in her life, being unable to fit in with her rambunctious classmates after having such a quiet childhood. The idea of being a burden to the family was in Clara’s head and felt that the way to win the affection of her family was to do extremely well in her classes to find the love that she felt was needed to be earned. She was extremely proud of the positive attention that her achievement of an academic scholarship (Pryor, 12). This praise for her accomplishment in the field of academics enriched her “taste for masculine accomplishments”. Her mother however, began to take notice of this and began to teach her to “be more feminine” by cooking dinners and building fires (Pryor, 15). The 1830’s was a time when the women of the United States really began to take a stand for the rights that they deserved (Duiker, 552). Growing up in the mist of this most likely helped Barton become the woman she turned out to be.
Clarissa Harlowe Barton, born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts. Carissa (Clara) was born the youngest of five children to Sarah and Steven Barton. Clara received all of her schooling and life training from her parents, brothers and sisters. Her father who was a once a captain in a war, taught Clara all he knew about the battlefield. Her mother taught her to sew and cook. Her two older sisters Sally and Dorothy taught her to read before she was four years old. Her brother Stephen taught her arithmetic and David her eldest brother taught her everything else; for instance, how to ride anything on anything with four legs, how to shoot a revolver, how to balance and how to take care of and nurse animals. (OTQEF, 1999, p.1) When Clara was 11 years old her favorite brother David, fell from the roof of the barn while trying to fix it, he was seriously injured and was not expected to live. Clara offered to help him and stayed by his side for three years. Her brother recovered thanks to Clara’s help. These learning experiences gave Clara the drive and determination to achieve anything she set out...
At the age of 18, Miss Barton became a schoolteacher. She taught at numerous different schools around Massachusetts. Clara noticed in one particular town that many of the students did not attend school that greatly distressed her. She wanted all children to have the same educational opportunity that she had when she was growing up. Eventually, Barton started her own school. It was free. However, she did not stay there for a long period of time. Clara only taught for a matter of ten years, teaching had exhausted Barton and she longed for a change in her life. She left the teaching field to move onto another field. Barton moved to Washington DC and she became a clerk in the US Patent Office.
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Clara Bartonś life before the civil war molded her to be an influential person in our nation's history. Born in Massachusetts in 1821 Clara Harlowe Barton was the youngest of six children. Barton reinforced her early education with practical experience, working as a clerk and bookkeeper for her oldest brother (civil war trust). Her siblings and family helped her with her education. Sally and Dorothy, her two sisters, taught Clara how to read. Stephen,
“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself” (Joseph Campbell). Clara Barton could be regarded as a hero because she went into several military battles during the civil war with a strong mindset to help the soldiers who were wounded and to provide supplies that were needed but scarce17.She was a woman of many talents who accomplished a lot but became best known for the founding of the Red Cross in America. Her humanitarian contributions and compassionate personality allowed her to connect with many people. As inspiring as Clara Barton was, she wasn’t born a hero but became one with the influence of her younger years. Clara Barton’s family life and personal struggles when she was younger, ultimately shaped
Stevenson, Augusta, and Frank Giacoia. Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross. New York: Aladdin, 1986. Print.
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Subsequently, women volunteered through national or local associations or by getting permission from a commanding officer (“Nursing”). In April 1861, Dorothea Dix assembled a collection of volunteer female nurses which staged a march on Washington, demanding that the government distinguish their desire to assist the Union’s wounded soldiers. She organized military hospitals for the care of all sick and wounded soldiers, aiding the head surgeons by supplying nurses and considerable means for the ease and aid of the suffering. After she recruited nurses; nursing was greatly improved and her nurses were taken care of under her supervision (Buhler-Wilkerson). During the Civil war, most nurses were women who took care of the ill and injured soldiers. Both male and female nurses have cared for the soldiers in every American war. The majority of nurses were recruited soldiers pressed into duty. Civil war nurses worked in hospitals, on the battlefield, and in their homes (Post). The first carnage of the war made it possible for nursing to become a professional occupation. The women who proved themselves as capable volunteers established nursing as an acceptable field of employment for women after the war. The contributions of the thousands of female nurses helped to alter the image of the professional nurse and changed American nursing from a male-dominated to a largely female profession (Woodworth). Clara Barton, one of the nurses who contributed to the Civil War, founded the American Red Cross, brought supplies and helped the battlefronts before formal relief organizations could take shape to administer such shipments (Buhler-Wilkerson). The religious orders given responded to the new opportunity for servicing the injured by sending t...
Almost all Americans have learned about the iconic people in American history including George Washington, Thomas Edison, and Abraham Lincoln. Although all of them deserve their recognition, they aren’t the only ones who have changed history. Many Americans, not just a select few, changed history and created the America we know today. One in particular is Clarissa Harlowe Barton, who went by the name of Clara. At the time Clara lived, women were still considered inferior to men. Throughout her work, she faced much sexism, but she worked past it and created a legacy for herself. Also occurring during her life was the Civil War, which she was a very helpful part of. Clara’s most well known achievement is her founding of the American Red Cross. In addition to that, Clara also established the nation’s first free public school in Bordentown, New Jersey, worked as a field nurse during the Civil War, and supported the movement for women’s suffrage. Barton has received little recognition for her efforts, but the work she did is still being continued today at the American Red Cross where they give relief to the victims 70,000 every year. By understanding her life and the work she did, people are able to realize the impact she had on the world, for it far exceeds that of which she is recognized with.
Clara Barton was born on December 25th 1821 in Massachussetts and is most widely known for founding the American Red Cross and supporting Union soldiers in the field during the American Civil War. Clara learned the arts of nursing at a young age when assigned the task of nursing her brother after he fell and received a severe injury.
Barton became a teacher, working in the U.S Patent Office and was an independent nurse during the Civil War. She used up much of her life in the service of others. During the Civil War, Clara Barton was on a mission to aid the soldiers in any way she could. Barton collected and dispersed supplies for the Union Army. All through the Civil War numerous nurses were needed on the battlefield, Barton aided surgeons with many medical procedures. Clara was notorious for being very calm and resourceful as she constantly turned up with food and medical provisions just when they were needed, acquiring the title “The angel of the battlefield”. After the war concluded in 1865, Clara Barton worked for the War Department, helping to either bring together missing soldiers and their families, or finding out more about those who were missing (Clara Barton Biography). Clara Barton then became founder of the American Red Cross, serving several years as its president. Barton fixated on saving many lives; she was thought to always do more for another individual instead of helping
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