and a Pennsylvania genealogist to determine whether an 1866 letter about the death of a Civil War soldier was actually written by Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. In this lesson ...

Clarissa "Clara" Harlowe Barton is among the most honored women ... she was shocked to find that many of the soldiers were "her boys": young men she'd taught back home in New England.

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

Clara Barton was born in Oxford in 1821 ... out while Barton was living in D.C. and she took action to help wounded soldiers.

Susan Bysiewicz joined the American Red Cross of Connecticut and Rhode Island at the Capitol on Tuesday to honor their hard work and highlight the woman that started it all — Clara Barton.