Clara Barton
- ISBN-10
- 1612288022
- ISBN-13
- 9781612288024
- Series
- Clara Barton
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09
- Publisher
- Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
- Authors
- Susan Sales Harkins, William H. Harkins
Description
In the eighteenth century, a woman had few choices. If she was lucky, she received a decent education. Then she got married. In an era when women didn’t work, Clara Barton was one of the nation’s first career women. Not only did she work, she did a man’s job and demanded a man’s wage. Some said she was scandalous, but friends and family thought she was generous and charming. The wounded from the battles of the Civil War called her the angel of the battlefield. Clara Barton is remembered not only as a nurse, but also as a woman who threw convention aside and went to the battlefields to care for the wounded and dying. Her courageous heart, personal sacrifice, and demands for better medical care for the wounded during the Civil War earned her the respect and love of the entire nation. After the war, she applied the same attributes to the founding of the American Red Cross. She is still loved today.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War
By Stephen B. OatesSee Abbott, Cobbler in Congress, 117, 117n118n, and McKay, Wilson, 15254, forthe unfounded allegations about Wilson andRose O'Neal Greenhow. p. 339 “most bloodthirsty monster”: New York Tribune, Aug.
-
Who Was Clara Barton?
By Who HQ, Stephanie SpinnerProfiles the life and accomplishments of Clara Barton, a teacher who organized efforts to bring nursing care to wounded soldiers during the Civil War and who went on to become the founder of the American Red Cross.
-
Clara Barton: Spirit of the American Red Cross
By Patricia LakinA brief biography of the woman who overcame her shyness to become a teacher, a nurse during the Civil War, and founder of the American Red Cross.
-
Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross
By Augusta StevensonA biography focusing on the youth of the nurse who organized the American Red Cross in Washington, D.C., in 1881.
-
Clara Barton: The Life and Legacy of the Civil War Nurse Who Founded the American Red Cross
By Charles River Editors" - Clara Barton The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and had the two sides realized it would take 4 years and inflict over a million casualties, it might not have been fought.
-
Clara Barton: Civil War Hero & American Red Cross Founder
By Susan E. HamenIn late 1880, James A. Garfield was elected president. Barton was hopeful that she now would make headway with her cause. She and Garfield knew each other from their battlefield days, when Garfield was a major general.
-
Clara Barton, Professional Angel
By Elizabeth Brown PryorIn Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and reveals a complex and often trying woman.
-
Brave Clara Barton
By Frank MurphyPresents an introduction to the life and achievements of Clara Barton, from her childhood in Massachusetts and her early career as a schoolteacher to her accomplishments as a field nurse during the Civil War and her founding of the American ...
-
Clara Barton: Courage Under Fire
By Janet Benge, Geoff BengeThis new series brings the shaping of history to life with the remarkable true stories of fascinating men and women who changed the course of history.
-
Clara Barton: In the Service of Humanity
By David H BurtonThis book is a concise, interpretive account of the life of Clara Barton from her childhood in Massachusetts through her feats of heroism during the Civil War, her founding of the American Red Cross, which she led for 20 years, and her ...