https://americacomesalive.com/clara-barton-1821-1912-dedicated-life-to-helping-the-injured-and-unfortunate/ Quick Takes and Popular Postings about America's Past Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:15:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://americacomesalive.com/clara-barton-1821-1912-dedicated-life-to-helping-the-injured-and-unfortunate/#comment-406099 Wed, 18 Dec 2019 01:28:21 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3391#comment-406099 […] to read about other women who lived during this era, read Dr. Mary Walker, Civil War surgeon, and Clara Barton, who did so much during the Civil […]

]]> https://americacomesalive.com/clara-barton-1821-1912-dedicated-life-to-helping-the-injured-and-unfortunate/#comment-210807 Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:20:28 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=3391#comment-210807 […] Clara Barton (1821-1912)is well-known as the “Angel of the Battlefield” for her work during the Civil War. Later she brought the Red Cross to the U.S. and formed the American Red Cross. However, she is less well-known for running the Office of Missing Soldiers. In a day when soldiers wore no official identification tags, it was often difficult to identify the dead or wounded. Clara Barton set up an office that operated from 1865-1867. She received 63,000 letters from families whose loved ones were missing, and she or her staff answered them all. They also managed to identify 22,000 soldiers. […]

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