During the Civil War. Women nurses showed remarkable heroism. They took care of sick and wounded soldiers, they risked their lives carrying supplies. To military hospitals. Sally L. Tompkins one such woman. She ran a military hospital in the South she was one of two women captains in the Confederate Army. Clara Barton was another heroic Civil War nurse, she worked tirelessly. Caring for sick and wounded soldiers in the North. In 1864, Barton superintendent of nurses for the Union Army. She later founded the American Red Cross Society. Served as president of the Red Cross. Until 1904.
