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Clara Barton was born.
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Clara's journey begins through help from teachers and older brothers and sisters.
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Clara Barton starts teaching in oxford Massachusetts.
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Ms. Barton establishes the first free, public school in Bordentown.
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Clara left teaching. She moved to Washington D.C to work as a recording clerk for the U.S. patent office. She then got fired for being a woman and started working there as a temporary employee.
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Many wounded soldiers in the war came to Washington D.C.. Clara Barton used her nursing skills and her own supplies to care for the wounded soldiers. She learned he nursing skills when she took care of her brother for 2 years when he was injured.
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Clara was well into her nursing career. She decided to set up a care center. There she would care for soldiers that were wounded in the war.
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In august Clara Barton went into the battlefield. There she was a nurse that cared for the wounded.
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While working on a patient a bullet nicked Clara. She was okay.
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Many soldiers were missing. With the okay from President Lincoln, Clara and a few other look for and find 22,000 lost soldiers.
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In 1868, Clara Barton's health declines.
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At 60, clara founded the American Red Cross and continued it for the next twenty years.
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In 1904, Clara publishes a story all about the American Red Cross.
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Exactly one month after the publishes her book, Clara retires from the American Red Cross.
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Barton publishes an autobiography all about her childhood called, "The story of my childhood".
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Clara Barton dies in glen echo, Maryland at 90. Many remember her to this day as the "angel of the battlefield".
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A U.S. commemorative stamp is issued in Clara Barton's honor.
