Clara barton facts battlefield
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Clara barton facts battlefield
compiled by Dave Wagner, Public Affairs Volunteer
Celebrate both Red Cross Month and Women’s History Month with these notable tales from the extraordinary life of Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross and one of the most honored women in American history.
Clara Barton earned the moniker “Angel of the Battlefield” during the Civil War
Clara Barton: Angel of the Battlefield by Allison Lassieur & Brian Bascle – Capstone Press
Following the battle of Cedar Mountain in northern Virginia in August 1862, Barton appeared at a field hospital at midnight with a wagon-load of supplies drawn by a four-mule team.
The surgeon on duty, overwhelmed by the human disaster surrounding him, wrote later, “I thought that night if heaven ever sent out a[n] . . . angel, she must be one—her assistance was so timely.” Thereafter she was known as the “Angel of the Battlefield.”
Barton was almost killed during the Antietam Campaign in September of 1862