Clara Barton - Healing the Wounds (The History of the Civil War)
Clara Barton began her career teaching in a one-room schoolhouse and wound up in charge of nursing operations on Civil War battlefields. As an army nurse, she convinced stubborn surgeons of the need for clean, orderly field hospitals. After the war, Barton founded the American Red Cross and led this emergency assistance organization to disaster areas both abroad and at home. Barton also led in the fight for women's suffrage, part of her lifelong battle against ignorance and prejudice.
Clara Barton is one of 10 books in The History of the Civil War, a series that brings the nation's most tragic and turbulent era to life by following the personal stories of its most prominent participants.