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Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born in North Oxford Massachusetts.
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When Clara was 11 her brother David fell off a barn roof, for 2 years Clara gave him his medicine and took care of him. *
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Clara wanted to join the war as a soldier but women weren't allowed, so Clara became a nurse.
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At the Battle of Antietam Clara performs her first operation with her penknife because all the other surgeons are busy. *
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At night at the Battle of Antietam 500 soldiers were expected to die but when Clara brought dozens of lanterns all 500 men were saved.
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After the war Clara met a man named Dorence Atwater. He kept a list of soldiers and their grave numbers at Andersonville Prison. She helped him mark 13,000 graves. *
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Clara went to Geneva Switzerland and found out about the Red Cross and became a volunteer during the war of 1870 in Germany. *
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It took Clara Barton six years to convince the government to join the Red Cross. She founded the American Red Cross and she led it for 23 years
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Sadly, at age 90 in Glen Echo Maryland the Angel of the Battlefield passed away.
