How Did Clara Barton Contribute To The Civil War

Clara Barton By: Caleb Eldrenkamp.

Did you know that there were roughly 3,300 union nurses in the Civil war?Clara Barton was one of them.Through out her childhood Clara Barton was a very intelligent and bright child.Clara Barton was born on December 25th,1821.Clara Barton was the fifth child in her family including David,Dolly,Sarah,and Stephen.Her parents believed in equal rights and taught her about equal rights.In her youth she was a girl who loved being outside.She learned many things at a young age.When she was him until he was well.Moving into adulthood she had a very successful life. Clara Barton had many jobs in her life and she loved every one of them.Her education was not formal.Her brothers and sisters taught her how to read,write,and do arithmetic.Her brother Stephen taught her how to do math.Her siblings also taught her
Clara Barton had many jobs but her first one was being a summer school teacher.She was a teacher at three different schools!She was a clerk at the U.S patent office,a nurse,owned a missing person office,teaching equality,and being the president at the A.R.C (American Red Cross).She was at the A.R.C longer than any of her other jobs.This was Clara Barton's jobs that she had nearly her entire life until 1904. Clara Barton was a well known person during the 1860-1900 time period.She was known for many things but mainly for being “the angel of the battlefield”.Clara Barton was a woman who had many challenges in her life.On her second job she was offered a job as an actual school teacher,they offered her $400 but male teachers were being paid $600.When she saw this she wanted to be paid as much as a man.They said yes but, she had to work twice as hard.She spent many years on trying to bring the red cross to the she had to work full time.With only twenty-one members!Clara Barton was a woman who never