Civil War Heroes: Clara And The Red Cross

Did you know that one of the greatest Civil War heroes was a women? Clara did manie things before, after, and during the Civil War that make her famous. One of the things that made her famous is she started the Red Cross. The Red Cross is still around today over 100 years later and is still helping people to day. Clara was important to history because she helped wounded soldiers on the battlefields, started the Red Cross and started a free school.
During the Civil War Clara help wounded soldier on the battlefield. At first she wasn’t allowed to bring supplies to the battlefield. She had ask every politician she knew to allow her to help on the battlefields. Finally in 1862 she was allowed to bring supplies to the battles. She started bring clothing and
Clara stared the free school because she saw how many kid did not attend school because their families could not afford it. The first day she opened her school only few students show up. At the end of the school year she had over 200 kids. The school did so well that the people of Borden raided $4,000 to make an even bigger school. When the school open Clara wasn’t the principal because the job was thought to be to hard for a women, instead they hired a man who was paid twice as much as Clara. Clara once said "I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay." Some people might say that Clara Barton was not important to history because she should have done more with her fame. Clara should have been more persistent with wanting to help on the battlefield, than she was. Countless of soldier lost their lives with in the first year of the war and Clara wasn’t on the battlefield to help. Clara should have also fought harder for the Red Cross because it wasn’t on government funding when it first started. With Clara as the president she should have fought to have it on government