Editing Clara Barton (section)

==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, 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.<ref name="Ida">{{cite journal|author=Harper, Ida H. |title=The Life and Work of Clara Barton|journal=The North American Review|volume= 195|issue=678|year=1912|pages=701–712|jstor=25119760}}</ref>

After the war, she ran the Office of Missing Soldiers, at 437 ½ Seventh Street, [[Northwest, Washington, D.C.]], in the [[Gallery Place (WMATA station)|Gallery Place]] neighborhood.<ref>[http://dcwriters.poetrymutual.org/Pages/barton.html Clara Barton] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305062748/http://dcwriters.poetrymutual.org/Pages/barton.html |date=March 5, 2016 }}. dcwriters.poetrymutual.org</ref> The office's purpose was to find or identify soldiers killed or [[missing in action]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.civilwarmed.org/clara-bartons-missing-soldiers-office-2/ |title=Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office |publisher=National Museum of Civil War Medicine |access-date=June 30, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131221130043/http://www.civilwarmed.org/clara-bartons-missing-soldiers-office-2/ |archive-date=December 21, 2013 }}</ref> 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 National Historic Site|Andersonville prison camp]], a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Clara Barton and Andersonville |url=http://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/clara_barton.htm |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=January 30, 2016}}</ref> She continued this task over the next four years, burying 20,000 more Union soldiers and marking their graves.<ref name="Ida" /> Congress eventually appropriated $15,000 toward her project.<ref>{{cite book |last=Peck |first=Garrett |title=Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and America's Great Poet |year=2015 |publisher=The History Press |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=978-1626199736 |pages=76–79}}</ref>