After her father’s death, Clara left the hospital and cared for soldiers. She collected distributed supplies for the Union and Confederate army. She started bringing three army wagons full of supplies. She also provided transportation to wounded soldiers. Clara was very experienced with the soldiers because she participated in battle of Antietam.…
Ever wonder how the American Red Cross got started? Well, Clara Barton had a little to do with the start of the Red Cross. All it took was the skills of being a nurse and the courage to do it. Born in Massachusetts on December 25, 1821 [History.com] was Clara Barton. Clara grew up with a dad that happened to be a captain in the war.…
During the beginning of the Civil War, she gave out supplies and in December 1861, she found herself in the middle of battle in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Serving as a nurse, she took care of soldiers on both the Confederate and Union side. Clara was exposed to many dangers of war. On December 11, 1862 while helping a physician, a bullet ripped through a Union officers coat tail and her skirt, as he helped her step down from a pontoon boat. Neither one of them were hurt.…
The Alamo Church was the most important event in the TExas history were Alamo heroes were killed she had joined the DRT team and tried to collect 70,000 dollars to buy the Alamo territory but the DRT team ended up collecting only 7,000 dollars Clara had to write a check using her own money to save Alamo and after she had done that she was called the Custodian, the Savior and the Queen of the Alamo. Her request being vetoed by president to help to pay for the Alamo teerioty. In 1945 she died close to the people that die of being hero of…
She would also bring food and supplies straight to the battlefield for the soldiers. Clara Barton then formed the American Association of the Red Cross. In this essay I will…
Several years after the war, she founded American Red Cross. When? Barton served as the superintendent of nurses in the Civil War for all of its duration, though founded American Red Cross in 1881.…
Many know Clara Barton as one of the woman who started the American Red Cross. This is true, but before she did this she did so much more that not many people know about. Clara Barton worked on the battlefields during the Civil War as a nurse. Clara and her father both believed that she needed to help the wounded soldiers. After Clara decided that she needed to do this she went back to Washington DC and got supplies.…
The experience gained while providing supplies and giving personal medical aid during the Civil War appears to have galvanized this women’s path for her future contributions to public health. After the war, while, on a visit to Europe, Clara Barton was introduced to the work of the Red Cross in Switzerland.…
Ohs Hughes was a women who lived during the time period before the American Revolution. During this time period, there were many on going issues between the colonists and the Motherland, which was England. Many issues, such as the Stamp act, were in this time period when Hughes wrote a letter about violence caused by Presbyterians. Presbyterians were people who were devoted to the Christian church but were also upset with the acts England had recently passed upon the colonies in the New World. In a letter to a the Lords, Hughes details the current situation in her province stating “The Presbyterians, who are very Numerous in America, and are avowedly, at the head of these Riots” (Hughes, 1766, 1).…
The American Red Cross in an organization where whenever a disaster occurs, they go help with food, supplies, and they even hold blood drives. Clara Barton wanted to make sure that there would be something where anyone could get help from some organization like The American Red Cross. When hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other disasters occur The American Red Cross will be there. They are dedicated and helpful to the victims of various events. When Clara Barton formed The American Red Cross, she knew that the world needed something like that in the world.…
The foundation of the the Red Cross had started in Genova, Switzerland in 1863 by the Geneva Public Welfare Society. There was a huge international conference that had 16 nations attend. At that conference they had decided to create the Red Cross to look into ideas dealing with the protection of sick and wounded soldiers during combat. Although the Red Cross had not started in America, Clara Barton was the one who had brought it to America. In the 1800s The Red Cross had started national blood donation service which is still active today.…
Throughout the Civil War, Clara traveled from battle to battle, doing what she could to nurse the soldiers back to health. She was courageous enough to go to the frontlines, where she narrowly escaped death many times. . Since Clara did a lot for the soldiers and always comforted them she was soon known as the “ Angel Of The Battlefields”…
The recognition of Mother Teresa’s charities created international expansion within the Missionaries of Charity (Mother Teresa Biography 1-3). In 1965 Pope Paul IV gave the decree of praise to the organization (Mother Teresa Biography 1-3). The Royal Consort handed over 34,000 in European money to distribute between the organizations (Hitchens, Page 66). She was awarded the Jewel of India and the Soviet Union’s Gold Medal, from the Soviet Peace Committee. In 1979 she received the Nobel peace prize and was recognized by the world vision’s president, Robert Seiple, as a woman who “beckoned us outward to see, to feel and to respond to the needs of society’s casts (Whitehead…
In 1861, federal troops attacked soldiers in the Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore, and Barton rushed over to help the wounded and gather supplies. She reached out to her friends to do the same and created a network of volunteers that would help the troops throughout the entirety of the…
When the Civil War commenced on April 12th, 1861, more than 3 million Union and Confederate soldiers geared up for battle. Men from all over America were appointed to go support their side in the war. While their battles are often historically analyzed, well known, and greatly documented, there is one aspect that rarely gets attention: the role of women in the American Civil War. The lives of women were drastically affected by the Civil War. Several disguised themselves as men to be able to join the battlefield.…