Clara Barton by Sammy

The Red Cross saved millions of lives almost everyday Starting by a great hero’s brother. They Couldn’t have done this without a great hero, the angle of the battlefield, Clara Barton

Normal childhood?? I think not.

Clara Barton was a christmas miracle born on december 25 of 1829 in Oxford, massachusetts; She was the youngest of 6 children. Her brothers where like heros to her. They taught her things that only boys learned to do like through a ball hard and fast, or to ride a horse bareback in the woods. One day, when Clara was 11, her brother fell of the roof of the barn and got very injured and ill. With no nursing experience, she nursed him back to health by tending for his wounds and illness. She never left his side once over the 2 years other to give him food and water. Barton Was painfully shy, so to fix that her mother signed her up to teach at a summer school for a salary of $2 a week. At first, she did not want to teach, but a soon as she started it seemed to come naturally to her and her students where enjoying themselves. In 1850 barton was enrolled in the Clinton Liberal Institute, one of the few vocational academies in America. It was 200 miles from oxford and it was her first time traveling away from home. After she was done with her studies she traveled back to oxford hoping she would return to the home she left for school but unfortunately, much has changed. When she got back she found out that her mother had died and her father went to live with her brother. She felt as if she wasn’t needed.

Other amazing accomplishments

People thought that women were considered lower than men. That's why when Barton was summer school teaching, she got paid only $2 a week. Men also mostly taught the full school year. But people were so pleased with claras work. That they offered her a job of a full school year and got paid as much as a man. One day she was walking and saw a group of boys on the street. She asked them if they were supposed to be in school. They said that her parents couldn't afford school. After that, she decided that she was going to open a school for poor families children. Her and her friend where the only two teachers. The first day of school, only 6 people attended there. By the end of the year, there were 200 students attending there and 400 waiting to attend. Since it was a only one room school, they had to build a bigger 2 story school. Though clara founded the school, The government refused chara when she asked if she could be the principle because she was a women. So she decided to go to switzerland to recover from the pain that they put her through. While she was there, a man told her about the red cross And agreed to help. Waile they were covering all of the floods, she got very ill. Barton couldn't run the red cross so she bought a house in new york to have a rest. Her biggest fear was if she stayed away for too long, the red cross would fall apart. Barton went back to work before she was completely well, fearing that her fear would come true. A few years later, president Arthur made the USA a new member of the red cross.

Word wide nurse

After Barton nursed a lot of kids with the smallpox, she discovered that nursing came naturally to her. she got highered a a clark in the US patent office for a salary of $1,400. She begged all of the politicians she knew if she could work on the battlefield of the civil war, but they refused her entirely because she was a women. An exciting day was when she finally got permission to go onto to the battlefield on july, 1862. She worked in the civil war caring for the union and confederate soldiers, and carrying supplies. Barton bought most of the supplies with her own money. One night, She appeared at the field hospital with a load of supplies, and the nurse on duty wrought, “ I thought that night if heaven sent out an…. Angle, she must be one - Her assistance was so timely” than after, She was known as “the angle of the battlefield.” The nurses had to bandage the soldiers with corn husks because they didn’t have bandages. Barton cared for each of the soldiers as if they meant the word to her. She stood by there sided and helped each one of the soldiers she tended to get through the pain that they might have been in. In 1873 she got named Head nurse in the army of james. Once she was in switzerland and a man told her about an association that she has never heard of before. The man told her it was called the red cross. It covered many natural disasters and anyone who was in need. She agreed to help out; soon she was elected president on may 21, 1881. The red cross covered most of the floods. The longest and most difficult one was the Johnstown flood of may 31, 1889. Whole townes were lost and many people were left homeless. She started getting tired and couldn't bare the thought that she was getting too old to run the red cross. She feared that if she left, the red cross would fall apart. Barton remained president until 1904. She Quit the red cross because some of her oldest friends where accusing her of stealing dozens of money even though most of the money was her own donations. She was so heartbroken that she couldn’t even eat. 2 days before she died, she felt a bad pain in her back and 2 days later she died on April 12, 1912 at the age of 90.

Clara Barton had a very busy life. Barton started with caring for her ill brother Then Moved up to caring for Children’s education and finally working with the red cross. She worked day by day, non stop to make the world a better place.