Biography Of Clara Barton For Woman Suffrage

Barton, Clara. Clara Barton for Woman Suffrage. Boston: [Women's Journal], 1898. Print.

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. After the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. Barton carried supplies to soldiers and nursed wounded men on the Battlefields. At first the united states government refused to give help or encouragement. But in 1864, She was appointed superintendent of nurses for the Army of the James. When the Red Cross war was ended, Barton formed a bureau to search for missing mens. Barton work during the Civil

She became an advocate for Civil rights for the rest of her life.Ordered to Europe by her doctor for a rest cure in 1869, Barton met with the International Committee of the Red Cross. She Participated in relief efforts during the Franco-Prussian war in 1870-1871, But she was forced into temporary retirement by ill health in 1972. After recovering, she campaigned to establish an American Branch of the Red Cross, despite government resistance due to fears of foreign entanglements. The U.S. senate finally ratified the geneva convention in 1882 and formed the American Association of the Red Cross. Barton became the President. Clara Barton was founder of the Red Cross, a dedicated humanitarian, and a volunteer who cared for wounded and sick soldiers during the Civil War. But you might not realize that in 1853, She started her own School in New Jersey, and worked as a clerk in the patent Office until, her anti-slavery opinions made her too controversial. After the war, she was the American Red Cross, first President and Volunteered in cuba during the Spanish- American War. To say that Clara Barton is a nurse is a gross understatement of her