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Clara Barton Quotes
Quotes by Clara Barton - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.

Clara Barton - Civil War Photograph
Image of Clara Barton, at the time of the Civil War - a period reproduction of a tintype.

Sanitary Commission (USSC)
A profile of the United States Sanitary Commission, founded in 1861, which helped promote health in the Union Army Camps, provide supplies, and raise money for the Union effort.

Ten Notable Women of Virginia
Clara Barton is included for her nursing ventures in the Virginia theater during the Civil War.

The Women Who Went to the Field
Barton wrote this poem long after the Civil War to honor the women who served in that war. "What did they go for?" Includes some questions for discussing the role of women in the Civil War.

Barton, Clara
Biography from The Columbia Encyclopedia 2001.

Barton, Clara
Biography from Biography.com.

Barton, Clara: Angel of the Battlefield
Introduction to Barton's life and wartime activities, created by the National Park Service for older children.

Clara Barton
For a brief period, Clara Barton was the superintendent of this Massachusetts prison for women, MCI Framingham, then called the Women's Reformatory. Color photograph of an old section of the prison.

Clara Barton
Biography of Clara Barton, hyperlinked to related biographies and event information.

Clara Barton
A "webquest" for older elementary school or middle school students, using web biographies of women including Barton.

Clara Barton
Part of a collection of biographies of women leaders from a working woman's magazine, Shatter the Glass Ceiling.

Clara Barton
Biography at the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Clara Barton
Biography from the Gale Group.

Clara Barton
From the Library of Congress, a summary of Clara Barton's life and work, plus two photographs available for downloading. Part of a collection of articles and resources on the Spanish-American War.

Clara Barton
A profile of Barton, highlighting her role as a caregiver. Illustrated with a photo from her later years.

Clara Barton's House
"Home of the American Red Cross." One of a series of teaching plans for studying history based on national historic sites. Includes background history, map, visual images, readings, suggested activities and supplementary resources (online and off).

Clara Barton in Dansville
A description of Barton's work in Dansville, New York, in 1866 when she passed through to lecture there, and in 1876-1886, when she maintained a "Country Residence" in the area.

Clara Barton Surmounts The Faithlessness Of Union Officers
An excerpt from Clara Barton's war diary.

Clara Barton National Historic Site
From the National Park Service, a description of the Glen Echo, Maryland, house where Barton organized and directed the American Red Cross efforts. Hours, history of the park, and related information.

Clara Barton Chronology
From the National Park Service, a timeline of Clara Barton's work: 1821-1860, 1861-1869 and 1869-1912.

Clara Barton (Memory)
Description of two Barton-related objects held in the Library of Congress: a tintype from about 1862 and a page from her notebook, 1864, about the battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Clara Barton's Search for Missing Soldiers
A summary of Clara Barton's mission to identify many of the missing Union soldiers at the end of the Civil War, particularly in Andersonville prison. Many documents from this search were recovered in the 1990s in a Washington, DC, building which had been slated for demolition before its history as Clara Barton's "Missing Soldiers Office" was discovered.

Clara Barton, Medical Life at the Battlefield
Out of the protected life of a 19th century woman, into the carnage of the Civil War battlefield: Clara Barton tells of her nursing experiences. Primary source document with a few study questions.

Discovered Historical Documents
In 1997, a National Park Service historian, Gary Scott, discovered boxes of papers in a building scheduled to be demolished. These papers turned out to be records from Barton's efforts to document the fate of missing soldiers after the American Civil War.

Johnstowne, Pennsylvania, 1889
Image of and some background about the destructive flood of May, 1889, where more than two thousand people died, and Clara Barton and other volunteers helped with relief efforts.

Papers of Clara Barton
Barton's papers are at the University of Maryland Libraries. Includes records of the Women's Relief Corps and their efforts to win pensions for women who served as Civil War nurses.