Clara Barton
Biography
Clara Harlowe Barton was born in North Oxford, Massachusetts on December 25, 1821. She was born into a family of five with her father being a skilled businessman. Her impressive abilities in nursing were later discovered at the age of eleven, when she was tending her injured brother. Eventually, Clara Barton found her calling to be a nurse. She decided that she wanted to apply her skills to helping the injured on the battlefield. Later in her career, she started to help injured soldiers off and on the even on the battlefield.
Barton had invented a completely new way of serving injured soldiers. This was by tending them on the battlefield. Her discovery especially benefited the seriously injured victims needing service immediately. By serving soldiers at the war site, soldiers of crucial conditions would get service isolated from the hospital, where other harmful injuries and diseases were exposed. Her service on the battlefields provided more room for patients, as well as not exposing them to the risk of being carried back to the hospital. The time it took for them to get to a hospital lowered the patients’ chance of survival. She had courageously risked her life to work on the battlefield for reasons only concerning others in need. Her great contributions to the Red Cross Association included being its first president for twenty-two years. She never was paid by the association, and at times even donated her own money to help the business. Life outside of nursing slowly departed as she dedicated and devoted herself more and more into helping soldiers in battle. Her kind deeds and service were especially phenomenal because she had entered the nursing force in a time lacking a lot of women rights.
Clara Barton made a difference by saving many soldiers’ lives, as well as inventing a new way of providing service to an injured soldier. This theory consisted of tending to soldiers on their fighting grounds rather than bringing the patient to a hospital. In this technique, soldiers would not have to come in contact with contagious diseases and parasites that posed a threat to the soldiers' health. Also, the time used to get a patient to a hospital could be crucial, especially if that patient needs urgent care, like losing great amounts of blood. Clara Barton also developed the Red Cross, an organization that currently remains to help millions of people.
Clara Barton was raised in Massachusetts where she developed her belief that slavery was wrong. Therefore, she helped and supported the Union the most. However, she did help the Confederacy on some occasions. Because of her tremendous devotion to helping injured soldiers, she eventually earned the name, "Angel of the Battlefield" , for her contributions to the war.
Clara Barton died on April 12th, 1912, at age 91 in Glen Echo, Maryland.
Clara Harlowe Barton was born in North Oxford, Massachusetts on December 25, 1821. She was born into a family of five with her father being a skilled businessman. Her impressive abilities in nursing were later discovered at the age of eleven, when she was tending her injured brother. Eventually, Clara Barton found her calling to be a nurse. She decided that she wanted to apply her skills to helping the injured on the battlefield. Later in her career, she started to help injured soldiers off and on the even on the battlefield.
Barton had invented a completely new way of serving injured soldiers. This was by tending them on the battlefield. Her discovery especially benefited the seriously injured victims needing service immediately. By serving soldiers at the war site, soldiers of crucial conditions would get service isolated from the hospital, where other harmful injuries and diseases were exposed. Her service on the battlefields provided more room for patients, as well as not exposing them to the risk of being carried back to the hospital. The time it took for them to get to a hospital lowered the patients’ chance of survival. She had courageously risked her life to work on the battlefield for reasons only concerning others in need. Her great contributions to the Red Cross Association included being its first president for twenty-two years. She never was paid by the association, and at times even donated her own money to help the business. Life outside of nursing slowly departed as she dedicated and devoted herself more and more into helping soldiers in battle. Her kind deeds and service were especially phenomenal because she had entered the nursing force in a time lacking a lot of women rights.
Clara Barton made a difference by saving many soldiers’ lives, as well as inventing a new way of providing service to an injured soldier. This theory consisted of tending to soldiers on their fighting grounds rather than bringing the patient to a hospital. In this technique, soldiers would not have to come in contact with contagious diseases and parasites that posed a threat to the soldiers' health. Also, the time used to get a patient to a hospital could be crucial, especially if that patient needs urgent care, like losing great amounts of blood. Clara Barton also developed the Red Cross, an organization that currently remains to help millions of people.
Clara Barton was raised in Massachusetts where she developed her belief that slavery was wrong. Therefore, she helped and supported the Union the most. However, she did help the Confederacy on some occasions. Because of her tremendous devotion to helping injured soldiers, she eventually earned the name, "Angel of the Battlefield" , for her contributions to the war.
Clara Barton died on April 12th, 1912, at age 91 in Glen Echo, Maryland.