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2. was anAmerican nurse who founded the
American Red Cross. She was a hospital
nurse in theAmerican Civil W
ar, a teacher,
and a patent clerk. Since nursing education
was not then very formalized and she did
not attend nursing school, she provided self-
taught nursing care. Barton is noteworthy
for doing humanitarian work and civil
rights advocacy at a time before women
had the right to vote. She was inducted into
the National Women's Ha
ll
of Fame in 1973

3. Early professional life
Barton became an educator in 1838 and served for 12 years
in schools in Canada and West Georgia. Barton fared well as
a teacher; she knew how to handle rambunctious children,
particularly the boys since as a child she enjoyed her boy
cousins' and brothers' company. She learned how to act like
them, making it easier for her to relate to and control the
boys in her care. After her mother's death in 1851, the family
home closed down. Barton decided to further her education
by pursuing writing and languages at the Clinton Liberal
Institute in New York. In this college, she developed many
friendships that broadened her point of view on many issues
concurring at the time. The principal of the institute
recognized her tremendous abilities and admired her work.
This friendship lasted for many years, eventually turning into
a romance. As a writer, her terminology was pristine and
easy to understand. Her writings and bodies of work could
instruct the local statesmen.

4. While teaching in Hightstown, Barton learned about the lack of public
schools in Bordentown, the neighboring city. In 1852, she was
contracted to open a free school in Bordentown, which was the first
ever free school in New Jersey. She was successful, and after a year she
had hired another woman to help teach over 600 people. Both women
were making $250 a year. This accomplishment compelled the town to
raise nearly $4,000 for a new school building. Once completed, though,
Barton was replaced as principal by a man elected by the school board.
They saw the position as head of a large institution to be unfitting for a
woman. She was demoted to "female assistant" and worked in a harsh
environment until she had a nervous breakdown along with other health
ailments, and quit.

5. American Civil War
On April 19, 1861, the Baltimore Riot resulted in
the first bloodshed of the American Civil War.
The victims, members of the 6th Massachusetts
Militia, were transported after the violence to the
unfinished Capitol Building in Washington D.C.,
where Barton lived at the time. Wanting to serve
her country, Barton went to the railroad station
when the victims arrived and nursed 40 men.
Barton provided crucial, personal assistance to
the men in uniform, many of whom were
wounded, hungry and without supplies other than
what they carried on their backs. She personally
took supplies to the building to help the soldiers

6. Postwar
After the end of the American Civil War, Barton discovered that
thousands of letters from distraught relatives to the War
Department were going unanswered because the soldiers they
were asking about were buried in unmarked graves. Many of the
soldiers were labeled as "missing." Motivated to do more about
the situation, Miss Barton contacted President Lincoln in hopes
that she would be allowed to respond officially to the unanswered
inquiries. She was given permission, and "The Search for the
Missing Men" commenced

7. After the war, she ran the Office of Missing Soldiers, at 437 ½ Seventh Street, Northwest,
Washington, D.C. in the Gallery Place neighborhood. The office's purpose was to find or identify
soldiers killed or missing in action.Barton and her assistants wrote 41,855 replies to inquiries and
helped locate more than 22,000 missing men. Barton spent the summer of 1865 helping find,
identify, and properly bury 13,000 individuals who died in Andersonville prison camp, a
Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia.She continued this task over the next four years,
burying 20,000 more Union soldiers and marking their graves.Congress eventually appropriated
$15,000 toward her project

8. AMERICAN RED CROSS
Barton achieved widespread recognition by delivering
lectures around the country about her war experiences in
1865–1868. During this time she met Susan B. Anthony
and began an association with the woman's suffrage
movement. She also became acquainted with Frederick
Douglass and became an activist for civil rights. After her
countrywide tour she was both mentally and physically
exhausted and under doctor's orders to go somewhere that
would take her far from her current work. She closed the
Missing Soldiers Office in 1868 and traveled to Europe. In
1869, during her trip to Geneva, Switzerland, Barton was
introduced to the Red Cross and Dr. Appia; he later would
invite her to be the representative for the American branch
of the Red Cross and help her find financial benefactors
for the start of the American Red Cross. She was also
introduced to Henry Dunant's book A Memory of
Solferino, which called for the formation of national
societies to provide relief voluntarily on a neutral basis

9. The society's role changed with the advent of the
Spanish–American War during which it aided
refugees and prisoners of the civil war. Once the
Spanish–American War was over the grateful
people of Santiago built a statue in honor of Barton
in the town square, which still stands there today. In
the United States, Barton was praised in numerous
newspapers and reported about Red Cross
operations in person

10. Final years
She continued to live in her Glen Echo, Maryland home which also
served as the Red Cross Headquarters upon her arrival at the house in
1897. Barton published her autobiography in 1908, titled The Story of
My Childhood. On April 12, 1912, she died in her home at the age of
90. The cause of death was pneumonia