Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton is among ... leanings made her too controversial. Barton was in Washington in early 1861 when the Civil War began. One of the first volunteers at the city's ...

Half a century before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had her ... The week after the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Barton began nursing Union soldiers at an improvised ...

History Detective host Eduardo Pagán consults a Clara Barton biographer, a civil war prison historian, and a Pennsylvania genealogist to determine whether an 1866 letter about the death of a ...