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The Civil War nurse Clara Barton was born and raised in Oxford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, and knew many of the men in the 21st Massachusetts Infantry. [3] More than 40 of them had been her students when she was a teacher before the war. [3] She therefore took an acute interest in their welfare.
Clara Barton's home and site of American Red Cross. In 1975, the Clara Barton National Historic Site , located at 5801 Oxford Road, Glen Echo, Maryland , was established as a unit of the National Park Service at Barton's home, where she spent the last 15 years of her life.
The Clara Barton National Historic Site, which includes the Clara Barton House, was established in 1974 to interpret the life of Clara Barton (1821–1912), an American pioneer teacher, nurse, and humanitarian who was the founder of the American Red Cross. The site is located 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Washington D.C. in Glen Echo, Maryland.
A dedication ceremony was held Tuesday along the Hagerstown Cultural Trail for the new Clara Barton Memorial by sculptor Toby Mendez. Memorial to American Red Cross founder Clara Barton dedicated ...
Clara Barton was an independent battlefield nurse who earned the nickname, "The Angel of the Battlefield". Several instrumental leaders of soldiers' aid and relief organizations came from Massachusetts. These included Dorothea Dix, who had traveled across the nation working to promote proper care for the poor and insane before the war.
1881 – Clara Barton creates the American Red Cross; 1881 – Tuskegee Institute founded; 1881 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett near Fort Sumner; 1881 – A Century of Dishonor written by Helen Hunt Jackson; 1882 – Chinese Exclusion Act; 1882 – Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert and Charlie Ford
The Battle of Antietam on Sept. 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history. According to statistics provided on the park's website, 22,720 Union and Confederate soldiers were ...
Among the crowd was Clara Barton who became a famed nurse during the Civil War. At the time a clerk in the U.S. Patent Office, Barton gained her first experience in caring for wounded soldiers as she tended to injured men of the 6th Massachusetts. [23]