“A Brief History of the American Red Cross” This article is from the American Red Cross website. There is no indication of who created this article. This article goes on to explain on how the American Red Cross started out and who started it and how it became to be what it is today. This will be used on how Clara Barton became the founder of this organization. “Historic Humanists- Clara Barton” This article is from a website named Eloquent Atheist. Michael W. Jones created this article. This article is about Clara Barton’s life and how she lived it. This will be used to tell the story of how people saw her and the things that she accomplished. Clara Barton has been described as having had an “indomitable spirit” and is the most recognized …show more content…
Under the sponsorship of the Grand Duchess and the International Red Cross, Miss Barton left for the city of Strasbourg, France. 1871, Miss Barton directed for relief work in Paris for six weeks, which helped established workrooms in Lyon, and also provided assistance in Belfort and Besançon. In 1872 – 1873, Miss Barton suffered from nervous exhaustion and temporarily lost her eyesight. October 1873, Miss Barton returned to the United States, but her nervous strain continued to creep up on her. Her condition worsened after her sister, Sally Barton, died. 1877 – 1881, Miss Barton really concentrated on educating the public and to support the American society of the Red Cross. She wrote and distributed the pamphlet, The Red Cross of the Geneva Convention. She met with President Rutherford B. Hayes to inform him about the Red Cross and enlisted the aid of friends to help publicize the Red Cross organization. May 21, 1881, The American Association of the Red Cross was formed. Miss Barton was elected president during a meeting, which was held June 9 in Washington, DC. August 22, 1881, the first local Red Cross …show more content…
Born in Massachusetts in 1821, she was the youngest born out of six. She started her own school in Bordentown, New Jersey in 1853, working several years as a school teacher. In search of warmer weather she moved to Washington D.C. and employed as a clerk in a Patent office until her anti-slavery opinions made her controversial. She returned home to New England and continued her works and philanthropy she had begun in Washington. In 1861 Barton returned to Washington when the Civil War broke out and was one of the first volunteers to appear at the Washington Infirmary to help care for wounded soldiers. After her father’s death in 1861, Barton left the city hospitals to go to the soldiers out in battle. Barton brought three army wagons that were particularly welcoming at the Battle of Antietam, where overworked surgeons were trying to make bandages out of corn husks. Barton organized bodied men to perform first aid, prepare food, and carry water for the wounded. Throughout the war, Barton and her supply wagons traveled along the Union army giving them aid. Some of the supplies, like the transportation, were provided by the army quartermaster in Washington, D.C., but most of the stuff was purchased with donations advertised by Barton or her own funds. Later in the Morris Island campaign, Clara Barton seeks to address the growing problem of sickness on the island by trying to pass out fresh food to the troops in the
Margaret Cochran Corbin (1751-c.1800) fought alongside her husband in the American Revolutionary War and was the first woman to receive pension from the United States government as a disabled soldier. She was born Nov. 12, 1751 near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., orphaned at the age of five and was raised by relatives. When she was twenty-one she married John Corbin. John joined the Continental Army when the American Revolution started four years later and Margaret accompanied her husband. Wives of the soldiers often cooked for the men, washed their laundry and nursed wounded soldiers. They also watched the men do their drills and, no doubt, learned those drills, too.
During the mid-1800s, separation in America between the North and the South became prevalent, especially over the idea of slavery, which eventually led to the Civil War. Women did not have much power during this time period, but under the stress and shortages of the War, they became necessary to help in fighting on and off the battlefields, such as by becoming nurses, spies, soldiers, and abolitionists (Brown). Many women gave so much assistance and guidance, that they made lasting impacts on the War in favor of who they were fighting for. Three inspiring and determined women who made huge impacts on contributing to the American Civil War are Rose O’Neal Greenhow, who worked as a spy for the Confederacy leading to multiple victories, Clara Barton, who worked as a nurse, a soldier, and formed the American Red Cross to continue saving lives, and Harriet Tubman, who conducted the Underground Railroad sending slaves to freedom, which enabled them and their actions to be remembered forever (Brown).
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Clara Bartonś life before the civil war molded her to be an influential person in our nation's history. Born in Massachusetts in 1821 Clara Harlowe Barton was the youngest of six children. Barton reinforced her early education with practical experience, working as a clerk and bookkeeper for her oldest brother (civil war trust). Her siblings and family helped her with her education. Sally and Dorothy, her two sisters, taught Clara how to read. Stephen,
Stevenson, Augusta, and Frank Giacoia. Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross. New York: Aladdin, 1986. Print.
Almost all Americans have learned about the iconic people in American history including George Washington, Thomas Edison, and Abraham Lincoln. Although all of them deserve their recognition, they aren’t the only ones who have changed history. Many Americans, not just a select few, changed history and created the America we know today. One in particular is Clarissa Harlowe Barton, who went by the name of Clara. At the time Clara lived, women were still considered inferior to men. Throughout her work, she faced much sexism, but she worked past it and created a legacy for herself. Also occurring during her life was the Civil War, which she was a very helpful part of. Clara’s most well known achievement is her founding of the American Red Cross. In addition to that, Clara also established the nation’s first free public school in Bordentown, New Jersey, worked as a field nurse during the Civil War, and supported the movement for women’s suffrage. Barton has received little recognition for her efforts, but the work she did is still being continued today at the American Red Cross where they give relief to the victims 70,000 every year. By understanding her life and the work she did, people are able to realize the impact she had on the world, for it far exceeds that of which she is recognized with.
Clara Barton heard of the global Red Cross organization while staying in Europe after the Civil War. (History.com, “Clara Barton”) After Barton returned home from Europe she began campaigning for an American Red Cross organization. Twenty-three years later Clara Barton continued to lead the American Red Cross to provide domestic and foreign disaster relief, and helped the United Stated military in the Spanish-American War. She also successfully campaigned for the formation of relief work during times of peace as a partner with the global Red Cross network. In 1904, Clara Barton resigned her title from the American Red Cross. In 1900 the American Chapter of the Red Cross was awarded its first Congressional Charter and a second Charter in 1905. Another version of the Charter was adopted in May of 2007, that Charter restated the original purpose for the organization. “Before the First World War the American Red Cross added first aid, water safety, and health nursing programs for the public.” (Bertol, 59) When war broke out the American Chapter of the Red Cross saw an extraordinary growth. When the war ended the American Red Cross centered its service to Veterans and intensified its safety training, accident prevention, home care for sickly people, and nutritional educat...
The American Red Cross was founded on May 21, 1881 by Clara Barton. In the late 1850’s she moved to Washington, D.C. to work in the United States Patent office. Clara Barton was one of the women to ever gain employment from the federal government. Clara wanted to help the soldiers of the Civil War so she gathered supplies for the Union Army. In 1862, Clara Barton was on the battlefield in Fredericksburg, Virgina, there she was helping wounded soldiers. She also helped soldiers who were hurt and involved in Antietam. During the early 1870s, Clara Barton was helping with a relief organization called the International Red Cross. When she returned home she decided to start an American branch.
Some years later, Clara Barton established a Red Cross society in America. She organized an association in Washington, D. C. on May 1881. The creation of this union
Clarissa Harlowe Barton, born on December 25, 1821, in North Oxford, Massachusetts. Carissa (Clara) was born the youngest of five children to Sarah and Steven Barton. Clara received all of her schooling and life training from her parents, brothers and sisters. Her father who was a once a captain in a war, taught Clara all he knew about the battlefield. Her mother taught her to sew and cook. Her two older sisters Sally and Dorothy taught her to read before she was four years old. Her brother Stephen taught her arithmetic and David her eldest brother taught her everything else; for instance, how to ride anything on anything with four legs, how to shoot a revolver, how to balance and how to take care of and nurse animals. (OTQEF, 1999, p.1) When Clara was 11 years old her favorite brother David, fell from the roof of the barn while trying to fix it, he was seriously injured and was not expected to live. Clara offered to help him and stayed by his side for three years. Her brother recovered thanks to Clara’s help. These learning experiences gave Clara the drive and determination to achieve anything she set out...
Subsequently, women volunteered through national or local associations or by getting permission from a commanding officer (“Nursing”). In April 1861, Dorothea Dix assembled a collection of volunteer female nurses which staged a march on Washington, demanding that the government distinguish their desire to assist the Union’s wounded soldiers. She organized military hospitals for the care of all sick and wounded soldiers, aiding the head surgeons by supplying nurses and considerable means for the ease and aid of the suffering. After she recruited nurses; nursing was greatly improved and her nurses were taken care of under her supervision (Buhler-Wilkerson). During the Civil war, most nurses were women who took care of the ill and injured soldiers. Both male and female nurses have cared for the soldiers in every American war. The majority of nurses were recruited soldiers pressed into duty. Civil war nurses worked in hospitals, on the battlefield, and in their homes (Post). The first carnage of the war made it possible for nursing to become a professional occupation. The women who proved themselves as capable volunteers established nursing as an acceptable field of employment for women after the war. The contributions of the thousands of female nurses helped to alter the image of the professional nurse and changed American nursing from a male-dominated to a largely female profession (Woodworth). Clara Barton, one of the nurses who contributed to the Civil War, founded the American Red Cross, brought supplies and helped the battlefronts before formal relief organizations could take shape to administer such shipments (Buhler-Wilkerson). The religious orders given responded to the new opportunity for servicing the injured by sending t...
The author, Elizabeth Brown Pryor, wrote her biography of Clara Barton with the intent to not only tell her life, but to use personal items (diary and letters) of Clara’s found to help fill information of how Clara felt herself about incidents in her life. Her writing style is one that is easy to understand and also one that enables you to actually get pulled into the story of the person. While other biographical books are simply dry facts, this book, with the help of new found documents, allows Pryor to give a modern look on Barton’s life. This book gave a lot of information about Ms. Barton while also opening up new doors to the real Clara Barton that was not always the angel we hear about. Pryor’s admiration for Ms. Barton is clear in her writing, but she doesn’t see her faults as being a bad thing, but rather as a person who used all available means to help her fellow soldiers and friends along in life.
...ter the American Revolution, was one of the most serious bad economic days, and in order to help her family’s money, Deborah became the first female lecturer. She went to places like Providence, Rhode Island, New York, and many cities as the title of “The American Heroine.” She began her lectures dressed as a woman and then later went into her uniform and showed a soldier’s routine to fight. Then she did that for about 5 years then she got a job as a teacher again. Sampson was a teacher until she retired then she got even more sick because of her injures she sustained during war she had to get pills and go to doctors to get better. With the success of her tour Deborah refreshed her campaign she also gained the support of Paul Revere, he went to her farm in 1804 then he wrote a letter to the Congress.
Marianne Craig Moore was born in Kirkwood, Missouri on November 15, 1887. She was the second child of John Milton and his wife Mary Warner. John Moore invented a smokeless furnace but failed. He collapsed mentally and was institutionalized before Marianne was born, son she never knew him (Parrish 1). Moore grew up in her maternal grandfather’s home. Moore spent her first seven years in an affectionate, close-knit environment. Her family encouraged serious reading and had a tolerant attitude toward diverse religious beliefs (Stone 2).
... she addressed many problems of her time in her writings. She was an inspirational person for the feminism movements. In fact, she awoke women’s awareness about their rights and freedom of choice. She was really a great woman.