Sarah Barton gave birth to Clara on December 25, 1821 in a small hospital in North Oxford, Massachusetts. Her parents, Stephen and Sarah, thought she was a special baby because she was born on Christmas Day. Clara was the fifth child born in her family.

When Clara was three her parents thought it would be a good idea for her to start schooling. Her teachers all adored her and thought she was a dedicated student and very promising.

One day when Clara was eleven years old and listening to another one of her fathers stories in the living room, she learned a lot about military, battle strategies, and first aid tips. When her brother David fell from barn rafters Clara of course left school to go aid him. At the age of thirteen Clara was really interested in aiding the poor, and tutoring children. She only got better at nursing while on the job, since there was no such thing as a Nursing school.

At the age of six-teen, and not knowing what she was doing, Dr. Lorenzo Fowler, a Phrenologist, told her parents it would be best for Clara if she would start teaching instead. So she started teaching in a smal

While visiting her sister Sally, Clara herd about the International Red Cross founded by Henri Dunant in 1864. Clara then signed up and loved working for the International Red Cross foundation. It had well training for the nurses as well. A woman named Antoinette Margot became Clara's co-worker after meeting up together in September of 1870. Clara was known as "The Angel of the Battlefield" because she was always willing to work on any battlefield.

June 23 of 1864 Clara was then stationed to and put in charge of X Corps Hospital, in Virginia. However in January of 1865 she left to take care of her dying brother Stephen, only to find when she went back that her father Stephen had died three years prior. Almost directly after Stephen recovered, Clara go severely sick with Typhoid Fever. It took many months for her to recover, but as soon as she did, she went right back to the battlefields and became superintendent of the Army.

Clara Barton had an amazing, eventful life and many creative ideas. Clara will always be known for what she did through out her life and she definitely deserves to be recognized for all her work she accomplished through out her life.

When the Civil War had ended Clara went from state to state speaking to the people about what the war was like and encouraged people to help out as much as they could during the wars.

In April of 1861, the Civil War came about and Clara was informed that Fort Sumter was fired upon. When she heard this she dashed there right away and "Rented a war house, filled market baskets and petitioned friends in New Jersey and New England to send comforts to the soldiers (William D. Hasley, author of Collier's Encyclopedia)." The stories Clara's father had talked to her about the battlefield and wars were greatly beneficial during this time of her petitioning.

By the time Clara turned twenty-five, she was unemployed. Her brother David then became seriously ill with a fever and her family could not afford to get him a nurse, yet too busy to stay at home to take care of him. Clara took on the role of his nurse and learned a lot from this experience, with the medications he was taking and what they were for and when to be taken, also what to do when he was seriously ill.

At the age of 77 Clara was still working six-teen hour shift days helping victims. Unfortunately by the age of 82, Clara was strained out of her presidency there and left the American Red Cross in 1904.

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