From being a four year old in a sixth grade class to founding the
American Red Cross, Clara Barton was an amazing woman who didn’t waste her time. After one of her childhood skating incidents, she knew what it was like to be in pain, and from that moment on, she felt the need to help nurse the soldiers, whether Union or Confederate, that had been injured and to help the victims of natural disasters. For this reason, she founded the Red Cross here in America, is known as the “Angel of the Battlefield,” and became a living legend.
In the town of North Oxford, Massachusetts , in a small cottage, on
Christmas Day, in 1821, Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born to parents Stephen and Sarah Barton. (Stevenson, p. 22-23) Her Father, Captain St
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