Clara Harlowe Barton
Find out what she did in the civil war! by: Gabi Lopez
Background on Clara
http://www.civilwarhome.com/bartonbio.htm
http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/1380
http://www.historynet.com/clara-barton
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/clara_barton.html
http://clarabartonbirthplace.org/site/?q=node/12
http://www.uuquincy.org/projects/stamps/14clarabarton.htm
http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/clara-barton.html
http://www.redcross.org/about-us/history/clara-barton
http://www.softschools.com/timelines/clara_barton_timeline/54/
Clara on her horse
In this picture Clara is riding her beloved horse while her sister helps her to be safe and not fall. David, her brother makes sure her hose doesn't run away.
Clara watches and learns
In this picture of 1898 in a Cuban hospital, Clara watches Red Cross nurses at work during the Spanish-American war.
Clara at work
In this picture Clara is on the battlefield healing a wounded solider after founding the Red Cross.
Clara and her interests
Clara's life working for the civil war
- April 1861- after a battle of many wounded soldiers, the soldiers came to Washington dc. Clara found them and helped them with her own supplies
- July 1861- Clara was asking for some supplies for the wounded soldiers by putting up an ad in Worchester Spy. She got some really good responses. Then she put up a care center for the wounded.
- august 9,1862- Clara went to her first battlefield to help the wounded, she spent two days and nights tending the wounded.
- September 1862- when Clara was on the battlefield healing a wounded solider on the battlefield of Antietam, a stray bullet hit her sleeve on her dress. Luckily, Clara was fine but the bullet trespassed her and killed the wounded solider.
- 1865- after a lot of soldiers go missing, Abraham Lincoln gives Clara permission to look for them. Clara established an office to look for the missing soldiers and ended up finding 22,000 lost soldiers.
Clara at a picnic
In this picture Clara and her friends from the Red Cross are outside enjoying a picnic on a nice day in 1898.
Clara at national guard camp
In this picture Clara(standing in front of the flag) was invited to direct the camps hospital of the national guard camp in May,1887.
Clara saves the day
http://rose-colligan.deviantart.com/art/Clara-Barton-Commision-88811024