I will be telling you about Clarissa (Clara) Harlowe Barton. In my paper you will learn what it was like when Clara Barton was alive. How she became who she was and how she founded the American Red Cross. She had to go to school in a one-room school house. Her mom would teach her about women 's rights and her father taught her about serving her country and helping others. When she was alive women were treated unfairly by men and people were still judged by the color of their skin and the South had slaves.
Clara was born on December 25, 1821 in North Oxford, Massachusetts. She lived on a big farm, went to school in a one-room school house, and she helped around the house by doing her chores. Her parents were Sarah and Stephen Barton, she had two sisters Dorothea and Sally, and two brothers David and Stephen.Before Clara went to school she was tutored by her brothers and sisters in subjects such as spelling, arithmetic, and geography. When Clara was 11 her brother David got terribly sick, but she cared for him and became his nurse. Luckily under Clara
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When her sister died Clara went into a state of depression, she wouldn’t talk to anyone and she stayed in her house for years, so she put off creating the American Red Cross. Then May 1, 1881 she created the biggest achievement of her life, Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. A few problems Clara faced are when she got fired from her clerk job at the patent office, and when they hired someone else to run the school she built, but she got over it. Everyone loved what Clara Barton did for the hurt and hungry soldiers, and everyone in the Civil War. Even when she didn’t talk to people for many years. When she came back into the open people were so happy she was back. Clara influenced women to stand up for them selves and never give up, she also got a lot of people involved in the American Red
When Clara was 56 yrs old, she was granted freedom but required to leave the state. Clara settled in a mining town now called Central City, CO where she worked as a laundress, cook and midwife. With the money she made, she invested in properties and mines nearby. She was known as Aunt Clara because of her emotional and financial support. Brown was a founding member of a Sunday school, made her home available to prayer service and generously supported her community.
It might not seem like a lot to some people but she really did help a lot of people in her time. People nowadays won’t know who she is but people back in the day will always remember her for what she
This is because she helped and aided many wounded soldiers during the war, she found thousands of missing men, and she established the American Red Cross. Clara Barton was born in Massachusetts in 1821, being the youngest of six children. Before Barton devoted her time to the Civil War, she was a clerk, a book keeper, and a teacher for several years. Clara Barton became a
Authors dedicated books in her honor and many sent her inscribed copies of their work. In the Civil War Clara Barton was a battlefield nurse, earring the nickname Angel
The Angel of the Battlefield As a teacher, a Civil War battlefield nurse, and the founder of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton made herself known by her love of helping people. Almost two hundred years ago, no one would have known that a baby named Clara Barton would change the world in a positive way. No one, not even her own parents, could have imagined that she would put her life on the line to help Union and Confederate soldiers directly on the battlefield during the Civil War. Even though Barton was a legendary nurse, she had other accomplishments under her belt, although the accomplishments went unrecognized.
Clara grew up to become a teacher, self-taught nurse, humanitarian, writer, philanthropist, and founder of the American Red Cross. Early life When Clara Barton was a young girl she was a very shy teenager
Clara Barton was born on December 25,1821. In the same small town of North Oxford Massachusetts. She was the American Red Cross in 1881. She also nursed the wounded at the battlefront during the wars. Many people called her angel of the battlefields.
Many people will go down in United States history for their many accomplishments. Some for being great leaders, some for fighting injustices,some for standing up when other would not, and others for helping people. There are many nurses that helped during the American Civil War. They will be remembered for their willingness to help,how hard they worked, their dedication to what they were doing and their kindness during a time of war. Clara Barton was one of those great nurses that helped during the American Civil War.
It made people aware of what was going on in the poor sections of the city. Because of her and the other people who helped her, people could not just turn a blind eye to the poor. She was rich and vocal about what was happening, allowing her to recruit others from her walk of life to help. I believe she made helping others through human service programs “cool”, which made others want to
She started out as being a reckless and carefree human. She worked at the Manitou alongside her friends Maisie and Lucy, yet Clara was not afraid to stick up for herself. She fought for herself and anyone she loved, “You fucking bastard! You're ruining her best day ever!” (pg 97) she didn't know how to control her anger, and often let it get the best of her.
In 1862, she left to work in the field hospitals. Clara brought wagons of much needed supplies with her. She continued helping in the midst of the war, and came close to death many times. Once, while she was helping an injured soldier, she “felt her sleeve move—a bullet had gone through it and killed the man she was tending” (@HistoryNet). On March 11, 1865, Clara was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to help search for missing soldiers.
She was the very first volunteer to arrive at the Washington Infirmary. She worked in the infirmary until her father died in 1861, after that, she decided to go to the soldiers near the battle fields because it was hard to bring them to the infirmary. She worked very close to the battlefield, therefore, she barely escaped death many times. One of her famous quotes is “I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them,” which shows how Clara Barton would risk her life to help a soldier, who fights for her freedom. One time, while she was nursing a soldier, a bullet brushed her sleeve and killed the soldier she was nursing.
She opened up her home to people that fit this description and made sure they were nursed to wealth and were ok. Even in her own home, at Auburn, New York, she helped people get well even when she wasn´t well. (web) This shows how strong she was and that she was able to do
Lucy Flucker Knox….. By Annika Heieie Lucy Flucker Knox helped with her own time and resources when ever possible. "I hope you will consider yourself as commander in chief of your own house,but be convinced, that there is such a thing as equal command.” By Lucy Flucker Knox. This quote means that everyone has an equal say.
She helped all kinds of people especially the poor, and the people that couldn't help their self like the old people. Her experience leading slaves along the Underground Railroad was very helpful because she knew the land well. She needed to know the land well so she could locate the people that were sick and help them. She was a civil war nurse from 1820/1821.