5. The Civil War gave Clara Barton her famous nickname. A week after war broke out, Barton discovered injured soldiers from the 6th Massachusetts Infantry housed in the Senate chamber of the U.S ...

Two decades before founding the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was a humanitarian without a cause. A former schoolteacher working as a clerk for the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C ...

Clara Barton was a "trailblazer"who became "arguably the most famous woman in America" during the Civil War, according to authors of a recent book about Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross.

A shimmering new public mural will go a long way in cementing Dansville's legacy as the community where Clara Barton ... In addition to Barton's portrait and her famous quotation, the cultural ...

Carol Starre-Kmiecik portrays Clara Barton, found of the Red Cross ... aviator Amelia Earhart to Cleveland's own internationally famous broadcaster, Dorothy Fuldheim to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ...

Between Civil War battles in early 1864, Massachusetts-born Clara ... famous for her work on battlefields in the civil war and in the Franco-Prussian war.” Indeed, it’s hard to imagine how ...