Editing Clara Barton

{{Short description|American Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross (1821–1912)}}
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{{Infobox person
|image         = Clara Barton by Charles R. B. Claflin, front- Original.tif
|caption       = Barton in 1865
|birth_name    = Clarissa Harlowe Barton
|birth_date    = {{birth date|1821|12|25}}
|birth_place   = [[North Oxford, Massachusetts]], U.S.
|death_date    = {{death date and age|1912|4|12|1821|12|25}}
|death_place   = [[Glen Echo, Maryland]], U.S.
|resting_place = North Cemetery in [[Oxford, Massachusetts]], U.S.
|occupation    = Nurse, humanitarian, founder and first president of the [[American Red Cross]]
|signature     = Clara Barton Signature, 1907.svg
|relatives     = [[Elvira Stone]] (cousin)
}}

'''Clarissa Harlowe Barton''' (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was an American nurse who founded the [[American Red Cross]]. She was a hospital nurse in the [[American Civil War]], 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.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Summers|first1=Cole|title=Clara Barton – Founder of the American Red Cross|url=http://www.truthaboutnursing.org/press/pioneers/clara_barton.html |publisher=Truth About Nursing|access-date=May 5, 2017}}</ref> Barton is noteworthy for doing humanitarian work and civil rights advocacy at a time before women had the right to vote.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Notable American Women 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary |volume=1 |last1=Edward|first1=James|last2=Wilson|first2=Janet|last3=S. Boyer|first3=Paul|publisher=Belknap Pr.|year=1971|location=Cambridge, MA|pages=103–107}}</ref> She was inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]] in 1973.
==Early life==
Clarissa Harlowe Barton was born on December 25, 1821, in [[North Oxford, Massachusetts]], a small farming community.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mace |first=Emily |title=Barton, Clara (1821-1912) {{!}} Harvard Square Library |url=https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/clara-barton/ |access-date=2024-01-22 |language=en-US}}</ref> She was named after the titular character of Samuel Richardson's novel ''[[Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady|Clarissa]]''. Her father was Captain Stephen Barton, a member of the local [[militia]] and a [[selectman]] who influenced his daughter's patriotism and humanitarianism.<ref name=":0" /> He was a soldier under the command of General [[Anthony Wayne]] in his violent [[Indian removal|removal of Indigenous peoples]] in the northwest. He was also the leader of progressive thought in the Oxford village area.<ref name=Humanitarian>{{cite journal |author=Bacon-Foster, Corra|jstor=40067108|title=Clara Barton, Humanitarian|journal= Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. |volume=21 |year=1918|pages=278–356}}</ref> Barton's mother was Sarah Stone Barton.

In 1825, when she was three years old, Barton was sent to school with her brother Stephen, where she reportedly excelled in reading and spelling. At school, she became close friends with Nancy Fitts. Barton was very timid as a child, and Fitts was her only known childhood friend.<ref name="Barton, Clara 1980">Barton, Clara (1980). ''The Story of My Childhood'' New York: Arno Press Inc</ref>

Beginning in 1832, when Barton was ten years old, she acted as a nurse to her brother David for two years after he fell from the roof of a barn and sustained a severe head injury. In nursing her brother, she learned how to deliver prescription medications and perform the practice of [[bloodletting]], in which blood was removed from the patient by leeches attached to the skin. David eventually made a full recovery.<ref name="Barton, Clara 1980"/>

Barton's parents tried to encourage her to be more outgoing by enrolling her in Colonel Stones High School, but Barton became more timid and depressed and would not eat. She was brought back home to regain her health.<ref name="Pryor, Elizabeth Brown 1987">Pryor, Elizabeth Brown (1987). ''Clara Barton: Professional Angel''.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. {{ISBN|0812212738}}</ref>

Upon her return, Barton's family relocated to help the widow of Barton's cousin, who had been left to manage four children and a farm after her husband's death. Barton helped to perform maintenance and repair work on the home in which her family was to live.<ref name="Barton, Clara 1980"/> After the work was done, she was reportedly concerned with becoming a burden to her family.<ref name="Pryor, Elizabeth Brown 1987"/> Therefore, she began to play with her male cousins, participating in their activities, such as horseback riding. When Barton injured herself, her mother decided that she should focus on developing more traditionally feminine skills and invited a female cousin to help develop Barton's femininity.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pryor|first=Elizabeth Brown|title=Clara Barton: professional angel |year=1988|publisher=University of Pennsylvania |location=Philadelphia|isbn=978-0812212730}}</ref>

To assist Barton in overcoming her shyness, her parents persuaded her to become a schoolteacher.<ref name="ANB">Pryor, Elizabeth Brown (2000). "Barton, Clara". [http://www.anb.org/articles/12/12-00054.html ''American National Biography'']</ref> She studied at the [[Clinton Liberal Institute]] in [[Clinton, Oneida County, New York|Clinton, New York]]. She achieved her first teacher's certificate in 1839, at 17 years old. Barton led an effective redistricting campaign that allowed the children of workers to receive an education.

==Early professional life==

Barton became an educator in 1838 and served for 11 years in schools in and around Oxford, Massachusetts. Barton fared well as a teacher; she knew how to handle 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.<ref name="Pryor, Elizabeth Brown 1987"/> 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.<ref name=Humanitarian/> As a writer, her terminology was pristine and easy to understand. Her writings and bodies of work could instruct the local statesmen.<ref name=Humanitarian/>

While teaching in Hightstown, Barton learned about the lack of public schools in Bordentown, the neighboring city.<ref name=Humanitarian/> In 1852, she was contracted to open a [[free education|free school]] in Bordentown, which was the first ever free school in New Jersey.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Handbook of American Women's History|volume= 696|last1=Howard|first1=Angela|last2=M. Kavenik|first2=Frances|publisher=Garland|year=1990|location=NY|pages=61–62}}</ref> 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 it was completed, 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.<ref name="Spiegel, Allen D">{{cite journal|author=Spiegel, Allen D|title=The Role of Gender, Phrenology, Discrimination and Nervous Prostration in Clara Barton's Career|journal=Journal of Community Health|volume= 20|issue=6 |year=1995|pages=501–526|pmid=8568024 |doi=10.1007/BF02277066|s2cid=189875392}}</ref>

In 1855, she moved to Washington, D.C., and began work as a clerk in the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|U.S. Patent Office]];<ref name="uua">[http://uudb.org/articles/clarabarton.html "Clara Barton"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504112812/http://uudb.org/articles/clarabarton.html |date=May 4, 2018 }}, ''Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography''</ref> this was the first time a woman had received a substantial clerkship in the federal government and at a salary equal to a man's salary. For three years, she received much abuse and slander from male clerks.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|title=Great American Women of the 19th Century: A Biographical Encyclopedia|isbn=9781591022114|last1=Willard|first1=Frances E. |last2=Livermore|first2=Mary A. |publisher=Humanity Books|year=2005|location=Amherst, NY|pages=81–82}}</ref> Subsequently, under political opposition to women working in government offices, her position was reduced to that of copyist, and in 1858, under the administration of [[James Buchanan]], she was fired because of her "Black Republicanism".<ref name=":2" /> After the election of [[Abraham Lincoln]], having lived with relatives and friends in Massachusetts for three years, she returned to the patent office in the autumn of 1860, now as temporary copyist, in the hope she could make way for more women in government service.

==American Civil War==
[[File:Clarabartonwcbbrady.jpg|right|thumb|Barton c. 1866]]

On April 19, 1861, the [[Baltimore riot of 1861|Baltimore Riot]] resulted in the first bloodshed of the American Civil War. The victims, members of the [[6th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia|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.<ref name=":2" /> 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.

Barton quickly recognized them, as she had grown up with some of them and even taught some. Barton, along with several other women, personally provided clothing, food, and supplies for the sick and wounded soldiers. She learned how to store and distribute medical supplies and offered emotional support to the soldiers by keeping their spirits high. She would read books to them, write letters to their families for them, talk to them, and support them.<ref name="redcross.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.redcross.org/about-us/history/clara-barton|title=Clara Barton {{!}} American Red Cross Founder {{!}} Who is Clara Barton|website=American Red Cross|access-date=December 9, 2016}}</ref>

It was on that day that she identified herself with army work and began her efforts towards collecting medical supplies for the Union soldiers. Prior to distributing provisions directly onto the battlefield and gaining further support, Barton used her own living quarters as a storeroom and distributed supplies with the help of a few friends in early 1862, despite opposition in the War Department and among field surgeons.<ref name=":0" /> [[Ladies' Aid Society]] helped in sending bandages, food, and clothing that would later be distributed during the Civil War.  In August 1862, Barton finally gained permission from [[Quartermaster]] Daniel Rucker to work on the front lines.  She gained support from other people who believed in her cause.  These people became her patrons, her most supportive being [[Henry Wilson|Senator Henry Wilson]] of Massachusetts.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Woman of Valor |last=Oates |first=Stephen B. |author-link=Stephen B. Oates |publisher=Macmillan |year=1994 |isbn=0029234050 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/womanofvalorclar00oate/page/13 13, 51–52] |url=https://archive.org/details/womanofvalorclar00oate/page/13 }}</ref>

After the [[First Battle of Bull Run]], Barton placed an ad in a Massachusetts newspaper for supplies; the response was a profound influx of supplies.<ref name="Tsui">{{cite book|last=Tsui|first=Bonnie|title=She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War|location=Guilford|publisher=Two Dot|date=2006|isbn=978-0762743841|page=110}}</ref> She worked to distribute stores, clean field hospitals, apply dressings, and serve food to wounded soldiers in close proximity to several battles, including [[Battle of Cedar Mountain|Cedar Mountain]], [[Second Battle of Bull Run|Second Bull Run]], [[Battle of Antietam|Antietam]], and [[Battle of Fredericksburg|Fredericksburg]].<ref>{{cite book |title=A Woman of Valor |last=Oates |first=Stephen B. |publisher=Macmillan |year=1994 |isbn=0029234050 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/womanofvalorclar00oate/page/58 58–64, 67–77, 83–91, 106–120] |url=https://archive.org/details/womanofvalorclar00oate/page/58 }}</ref> Barton helped both Union and Confederate soldiers.<ref name="Tsui"/> Supplies were not always readily available though. At the battle of Antietam, for example, Barton used corn-husks in place of bandages.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Richard H.|title=Women on the Civil War Battlefront|location=Lawrence|publisher=University Press of Kansas|year=2006|isbn=978-0700614370|page=41}}</ref> Speaking of her commitment to being a nurse in the war after experiencing battle, Clara would say,  "I shall remain here while anyone remains, and do whatever comes to my hand. I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Snapshots |first=Historical |date=2021-03-02 |title=Clara Barton: A snapshot biography |url=https://historicalsnaps.com/2021/03/02/a-snapshot-biography-of-clara-barton/ |access-date=2023-04-19 |website=Historical Snapshots |language=en-US}}</ref>

In April 1863, Barton accompanied her brother, David, to [[Port Royal, South Carolina]] in the Union-occupied [[Sea Islands]] after he was appointed as a [[quartermaster]] within the [[Union Navy]].<ref name="Diary1">{{cite web |last1=Barton |first1=Clara |title=Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1863, Apr. 2-July 23 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/mss119730008/ |website=Library of Congress |access-date=6 April 2024}}</ref> Clara Barton resided in the Sea Islands until early 1864.<ref name="Diary2">{{cite web |last1=Barton |first1=Clara |title=Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1863, Dec. 3-1864, May 7 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/mss119730009 |website=Library of Congress |access-date=6 April 2024}}</ref> While in South Carolina, she became friends with prominent abolitionist and feminist [[Frances Dana Barker Gage]], who had traveled south to educate formerly enslaved people (see [[Port Royal Experiment]]).<ref name="Diary1"/> Barton also became acquainted with [[Jean Margaret Davenport]], an actress from [[England]] who was then residing on the Sea Islands with her husband, Union General [[Frederick W. Lander]].<ref name="Diary1"/> Barton provided medical care to the Black soldiers of the [[54th Massachusetts Regiment]] following their attack on [[Fort Wagner]].<ref name="Diary1"/> Additionally, she traveled to [[Morris Island, South Carolina|Morris Island]] to nurse Union soldiers there, accompanied by a Black woman named Betsey who worked under Barton during her time in the Sea Islands.<ref name="Diary2"/> She quarreled with General [[Quincy Adams Gillmore]] after he suddenly ordered her to evacuate her post at Morris Island.<ref name="Diary2"/> Also in the Sea Islands, she became acquainted with a Union officer, Colonel John J. Elwell. Historian Stephen B. Oates claims that Barton and Elwell had a romantic and sexual relationship.<ref>{{cite book |title=A Woman of Valor |last=Oates |first=Stephen B. |publisher=Macmillan |year=1994 |isbn=0029234050 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/womanofvalorclar00oate/page/145 145–146, 148–157] |url=https://archive.org/details/womanofvalorclar00oate/page/145 }}</ref>

In 1864, she was appointed by Union General [[Benjamin Butler (politician)|Benjamin Butler]] as the "lady in charge" of the hospitals at the front of the [[Army of the James]]. Among her more harrowing experiences was an incident in which a bullet tore through the sleeve of her dress without striking her and killed a man to whom she was tending.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Clara Barton (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/people/clara-barton.htm |access-date=2024-07-29 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}</ref> She was known as the "[[Florence Nightingale]] of America".<ref>{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZW_aAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA115 |title=The Life of Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross, Volume 2 |chapter=The Forerunners of the Red Cross |first=William Eleazar |last=Barton |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin]] |page=115 |year=1922 |access-date=February 4, 2019 |via=Google Books}}</ref> She was also known as the "Angel of the Battlefield"<ref name="redcross.org"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 19, 2021 |title=Red Cross |url=https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/red-cross#section_2 |access-date=February 23, 2024 |website=History.com}}</ref> after she came to the aid of the overwhelmed surgeon on duty following the battle of Cedar Mountain in Northern Virginia in August 1862.  She arrived at a field hospital at midnight with a large number of supplies to help the severely wounded soldiers. This naming came from her frequent timely assistance as she served troops at the battles of Fairfax Station, Chantilly, Harpers Ferry, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Charleston, Petersburg and Cold Harbor.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="WDL">{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/7315/ |title = The Story of My Childhood |website = [[World Digital Library]] |year = 1907 |access-date = October 9, 2013 }}</ref>

==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>

==The American Red Cross==
[[File:Clara Barton cross monument at Antietam battlefield.TIF|thumb|Detail of Clara Barton monument at [[Antietam National Battlefield]], with red cross formed of a brick from the home where she was born]]

Clara Barton achieved widespread recognition by delivering lectures around the country about her war experiences from 1865 to 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 [[International Red Cross|Red Cross]] and [[Louis Appia|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.

In the beginning of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], in 1870, she assisted the [[Princess Louise of Prussia|Grand Duchess of Baden]] in the preparation of military hospitals and gave the Red Cross society much aid during the war. At the joint request of the German authorities and the [[Strasbourg]] Comité de Secours, she superintended the supplying of work to the poor of Strasbourg in 1871, after the [[Siege of Paris (1870-1871)|Siege of Paris]], and in 1871 had charge of the public distribution of supplies to the destitute people of Paris. At the close of the war, she received honorable decorations of the Golden Cross of [[Baden]] and the Prussian [[Iron Cross]].<ref>{{Appletons'|wstitle=Barton, Clara|year=1900|inline=1}}</ref>

When Barton returned to the United States, she inaugurated a movement to gain recognition for the [[International Committee of the Red Cross|International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)]] by the United States government.<ref name="Epler">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/lifeclarabarton00eplegoog |title=The Life of Clara Barton |first=Percy Harold |last=Epler |publisher=Macmillan |year=1915 |access-date=September 28, 2010}}</ref> In 1873, she began work on this project.  In 1878, she met with President [[Rutherford B. Hayes]], who expressed the opinion of most Americans at that time which was the U.S. would never again face a calamity like the Civil War. Barton finally succeeded during the administration of President [[Chester Arthur]], using the argument that the new [[American Red Cross]] could respond to crises other than war such as natural disasters like earthquakes, forest fires, and hurricanes.

Barton became President of the American branch of the society, which held its first official meeting at her apartment in Washington, DC, May 21, 1881.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Michals |first=Debra |date=2015 |title=Clara Barton |url=https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/clara-barton |access-date=February 23, 2024 |website=National Women's History Museum}}</ref> The first local society was founded August 22, 1881 in [[Dansville, Livingston County, New York]], where she maintained a country home.<ref>{{cite web |title=History – Founder Clara Barton |last=Marks |first=Mary Jo |publisher=American Red Cross |url=http://www.redcross.org/about-us/history/clara-barton |access-date=May 21, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=McCullough |first=David |author-link=David McCullough |title=The Johnstown Flood |year=1968 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-0671395308 |page=239}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dromi |first1=Shai M. |title=Above the fray: The Red Cross and the making of the humanitarian NGO sector |date=2020 |publisher=Univ. of Chicago Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-0226680101 |pages=102–106 |url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo46479924.html}}</ref>

[[File:Clara Barton 2021 stamp of Armenia.png|thumb|Barton on a 2021 stamp of [[Armenia]]]]
Domestically in 1884 she helped in the floods on the Ohio river, provided Texas with food and supplies during the famine of 1887, took workers to Illinois in 1888 after a tornado, and that same year took workers to Florida for the yellow fever epidemic.<ref name="McCullough 1968">{{cite book |last=McCullough |first=David |title=The Johnstown Flood |year=1968 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |isbn=978-0671395308}}</ref> Within days after the [[Johnstown Flood]] in 1889, she led her delegation of 50 doctors and nurses in response,<ref name="McCullough 1968" /> founding what would become [[Conemaugh Health System]]. In 1896, responding to the humanitarian crisis in the Ottoman Empire of the [[Hamidian massacres]], Barton arrived in  [[Constantinople]] February 15. Barton along with Minister Terrell spoke with Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, to procure the right to enter the interior.  Barton herself stayed in Constantinople to conduct the business of the expedition. Her General Field Agent, J. B. Hubbell, M.D.; two Special Field Agents, E. M. Wistar and C. K. Wood; and Ira Harris M. D., Physician in Charge of Medical Relief in Zeitoun and Marash, traveled to the Armenian provinces in the spring of 1896, providing relief and humanitarian aid to the Armenian population who were victims of the massacres done in 1894–1896 by Ottoman Empire. Barton also worked in hospitals in Cuba in 1898 at the age of 77.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Ardalan, Christine |title=Clara Barton's 1898 battles in Cuba: a reexamination of her nursing contributions|journal=Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies Journal|volume= 12|issue=1 |year=2010|url=http://home.fau.edu/peralta/web/FACS/CLARABARTON.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221010/http://home.fau.edu/peralta/web/FACS/CLARABARTON.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-10 |url-status=live |pages=1–20}}</ref> Barton's last field operation as President of the American Red Cross was helping victims of the [[Galveston Hurricane of 1900|Galveston hurricane]] in 1900. The operation established an orphanage for children.
[[File:Clara Barton 1904.jpg|thumb| Photo by [[James E. Purdy]] (1904)]]
As criticism arose of her mixing professional and personal resources, Barton was forced to resign as president of the American Red Cross in 1904 at the age of 83 because her egocentric leadership style fit poorly into the formal structure of an organizational charity.<ref name=":1" /> She had been forced out of office by a new generation of all-male scientific experts who reflected the realistic efficiency of the Progressive Era rather than her idealistic humanitarianism.<ref>Burton, David Henry (1995) ''Clara Barton: In the Service of Humanity''. Greenwood.</ref> In memory of the courageous women of the civil war, the Red Cross Headquarters was founded. During the dedication, not one person said a word. This was done in order to honor the women and their services.<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=40067384|author=Downing, Margaret Brent|title=The Centenary of Clara Barton and Recent Biographical Sketches of Her Life and Achievements|journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. |volume=26 |year=1924|pages=121–128}}</ref> After resigning, Barton founded the [[National First Aid Society]].

==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''.<ref name="WDL"/> On April 12, 1912, she died in her home at the age of 90 due to [[pneumonia]].

==Personal life and beliefs==
Barton's wartime diary entries show she was a devout [[Christianity in the United States|Christian]]. She specifically had a strong belief in [[divine providence]], writing for instance that she "believed that Providence had ordained Lincoln's election."<ref>{{cite book |title=A Woman of Valor |last=Oates |first=Stephen B. |author-link=Stephen B. Oates |publisher=Macmillan |year=1994 |isbn=0029234050 |pages=452}}</ref> Upon hearing of the death of an acquaintance's child, she wrote, "God is great; and fearfully just, truly it is a fearful thing to fall into his hands. [H]is ways are past finding out."<ref name="Diary1"/> Furthermore, while reflecting on whether or not to return home early from her visit to the Sea Islands in 1863, she wrote, "Gods [sic] will not mine be done – I am content, how I wish I could always keep in full view the fact and feeling that God orders all things precisely as they should be – all is best as it is."<ref name="Diary1"/>

Although not formally a member of the [[Universalist Church of America]],<ref>{{cite book |first=Russell E. |last=Miller |title=The Larger Hope: The First Century of the Universalist Church in America 1770 – 1870 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FYPZAAAAMAAJ |quote=Although not formally a Universalist by church membership, she had come of a Universalist family, was sympathetic to the tenets of the denomination, and has always been claimed by it. |page=124 |oclc=16690792 |year=1979 |publisher=Unitarian Universalist Association |isbn=9780933840003 }}</ref> in a 1905 letter to the widow of Carl Norman Thrasher, she identified herself with her parents' church as a "Universalist".<ref name="Barton letter">{{cite web |title = Positive Atheism website |url =http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml8886.htm |access-date= May 25, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305033013/http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml8886.htm |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |url-status=dead }} Source taken from ''The Universalist Leader'' 120/49 1938.</ref>
{{blockquote|My dear friend and sister:

Your belief that I am a Universalist is as correct as your greater belief that you are one yourself, a belief in which all who are privileged to possess it rejoice. In my case, it was a great gift, like St. Paul, I "was born free", and saved the pain of reaching it through years of struggle and doubt.

My father was a leader in the building of the church in which Hosea Ballow preached his first dedication sermon. Your historic records will show that the old Huguenot town of Oxford, Mass. erected one of, if not the first Universalist Church in America. In this town I was born; in this church I was reared. In all its reconstructions and remodelings I have taken a part, and I look anxiously for a time in the near future when the busy world will let me once more become a living part of its people, praising God for the advance in the liberal faith of the religions of the world today, so largely due to the teachings of this belief.

Give, I pray you, dear sister, my warmest congratulations to the members of your society. My best wishes for the success of your annual meeting, and accept my thanks most sincerely for having written me.

Fraternally yours, (Signed) Clara Barton.}} While she was not an active member of her parents' church, Barton wrote about how well known her family was in her hometown and how many relationships her father formed with others in their town through their church and religion.<ref name="Pryor, Elizabeth Brown 1987"/>

With regards to politics, Barton firmly supported President Lincoln and the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] during the war. In 1863, she rebuffed a request from a [[Copperhead (politics)|Copperhead]] [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]], T.W. Meighan, to denounce the Republican Party.<ref name="Oates157-158">{{cite book |title=A Woman of Valor |last=Oates |first=Stephen B. |author-link=Stephen B. Oates |publisher=Macmillan |year=1994 |isbn=0029234050 |pages=157–158}}</ref> In her letter to Meighan, Barton also stated, "I am a U.S. soldier you know [...] and, as I am a soldier, and not a statesman, I shall make no attempt at discussing political points with you."<ref name="Oates157-158"/> Further, she wrote that with regards to politics, "I am supposed to be profoundly ignorant."<ref name="Oates157-158"/> While the historian Stephen B. Oates reads these statements as [[irony|ironic]],<ref name="Oates157-158"/> this is disputed by Nina Silber (a historian of [[Women in the American Civil War|women in the Civil War era]]). Silber claims that "Clara Barton came to believe her job had very little to do with politics"<ref>{{cite book |title=Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War |last=Silber |first=Nina |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2005 |isbn=9780674016774 |pages=218}}</ref> and "emerged from the war more aware than ever of women's political weaknesses."<ref>{{cite book |title=Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War |last=Silber |first=Nina |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2005 |isbn=9780674016774 |pages=160–161}}</ref> While Oates labels Barton a "committed [[Feminism|feminist]]",<ref name="Oates192">{{cite book |title=A Woman of Valor |last=Oates |first=Stephen B. |author-link=Stephen B. Oates |publisher=Macmillan |year=1994 |isbn=0029234050 |pages=192}}</ref> Silber compares her to other nurses such as [[Mary Ann Bickerdyke]] and [[Cornelia Hancock]], who clung to [[patriarchy|patriarchal]] ideas of male hierarchical authority and the arrangement of "[[separate spheres]]" during the Civil War.<ref>{{cite book |title=Daughters of the Union: Northern Women Fight the Civil War |last=Silber |first=Nina |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=2005 |isbn=9780674016774 |pages=210–212}}</ref> Barton became a proponent of [[Women's suffrage in the United States|women's suffrage]] after conversing with her friend, Gage, on the topic.<ref name="Oates192"/>

Barton was a fan of the poetry of [[Lord Tennyson]] and [[Walter Scott]].<ref name="Diary1"/>

==Clara Barton National Historic Site==
[[File:CBcolorizedhouse.jpg|thumb|Clara Barton's home and site of American Red Cross.]]
In 1975, the [[Clara Barton National Historic Site]], located at 5801 Oxford Road, [[Glen Echo, Maryland]], was established as a unit of the [[National Park Service]] at Barton's home, where she spent the last 15 years of her life. As the first [[National Historical Park|National Historic Site]] dedicated to the accomplishments of a woman, it preserves the early history of the American Red Cross, since the home also served as an early headquarters of the organization.

The National Park Service restored eleven rooms, including the Red Cross offices, the parlors, and Barton's bedroom. Visitors to the house were able to gain a sense of how Barton lived and worked. Guides led tourists through the three levels, emphasizing Barton's use of her unusual home. In October 2015 the site was closed for repairs<ref>{{cite web |title=Operating Hours & Seasons |website=Clara Barton National Historic Site |url=https://www.nps.gov/clba/planyourvisit/hours.htm |date=2016-08-21 |publisher=National Park Service |location=Glen Echo, MD |archive-date=2017-06-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617013554/https://www.nps.gov/clba/planyourvisit/hours.htm}}</ref> and remained closed, due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], through 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Operating Hours & Seasons |url=https://www.nps.gov/clba/planyourvisit/hours.htm |date=2020-03-23 |website=Clara Barton National Historic Site |archive-date=2021-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210102112650/https://www.nps.gov/clba/planyourvisit/hours.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Tousignant |first=Marylou |title=Clara Barton, nurse and activist, spent a lifetime serving others |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/kidspost/2021/12/22/clara-barton-200th-birthday/ |date=2021-12-22 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> The house reopened to the public in 2022, although the second and third floors of the house remain closed, due to "structural concerns".<ref>{{cite web |title=Operating Hours & Seasons |url=https://www.nps.gov/clba/planyourvisit/hours.htm |date=2022-09-09 |website=Clara Barton National Historic Site}}</ref>

==Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office==
In 1869, Barton closed the Missing Soldiers Office and headed to Europe.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nps.gov/clba/learn/kidsyouth/chron2.htm | title=Clara Barton Chronology 1861–1869 | publisher=National Park Service | access-date=June 8, 2015}}</ref> The third floor of her old boardinghouse was boarded up in 1913, and the site forgotten. The site was "lost" in part because Washington, DC realigned its addressing system in the 1870s. The boardinghouse became 437 ½ Seventh Street Northwest (formerly 488-1/2 Seventh Street West).

In 1997, General Services Administration carpenter Richard Lyons was hired to check out the building for its demolition. He found a treasure trove of Barton items in the attic, including signs, clothing, Civil War soldier's socks, an army tent, Civil War-era newspapers, and many documents relating to the Office of Missing Soldiers.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office: An Historic Rediscovery on 7th Street|url=http://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?ID=229087|publisher=Smithsonian Associates|access-date=September 23, 2015|date=July 2014}}</ref> This discovery led to the NPS saving the building from demolition. It took years, however, for the site to be restored.<ref>{{cite news|title=Clara Barton's D.C. Office To Be Civil War Missing Soldiers Museum|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/12/clara-barton-dc-museum-missing_n_1421169.html|work=HuffPost|access-date=September 23, 2015|date=April 12, 2012}}</ref> The Clara Barton's Missing Soldiers Office Museum, run by the [[National Museum of Civil War Medicine]], opened in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office|url=http://www.clarabartonmuseum.org/|access-date=June 12, 2017}}</ref><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=76–80}}</ref>

==Fictional depictions==
* ''Numbering All the Bones'' by [[Ann Rinaldi]] features Barton and [[Andersonville Prison]], a Civil War prison with terrible conditions.
* ''Angel of Mercy'' ([[Metro Goldwyn Mayer|MGM]], 1939) is a biographical short film directed by [[Edward L. Cahn]], starring [[Sara Haden]] as Barton and [[Ann Rutherford]] as a woman whose brother's death in a Civil War battle inspires her to join Barton in her work.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
* In the NBC TV series ''[[Voyagers!]]'' (1982–1983), Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones travel through time to make sure history proceeds correctly. In the episode "The Travels of Marco&nbsp;... and Friends", season 1, episode 9, original airdate December 3, 1982, Phineas and Jeffrey rescue Barton ([[Patricia Donahue (actress)|Patricia Donahue]]) from a burning wagon, but she is on the verge of succumbing to smoke inhalation. Jeffrey (a young boy from 1982) applies mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (a technique unknown in Barton's time) and saves her life, thus enabling her to go on to found the American Red Cross.
* [[Mandy Moore]] plays Barton in an episode of ''[[Drunk History]]'' which features a summary of Barton's accomplishments during and after the Civil War as narrated by [[Amber Ruffin]].
* ''[[America: The Motion Picture]]'' features a highly fictionalized version of Clara Barton as voiced by Megan Leahy.
* In the HBO series ''[[The Gilded Age (TV series)|The Gilded Age]]'' (2022), Barton is played by [[Linda Emond]].
* In ''Civil War on Sunday'', the 21st book in the ''[[Magic Tree House]]'' series, main characters Jack and Annie meet and help Clara Barton in her work. Barton imparts some of her wisdom to them regarding how to help the wounded soldiers.

==Places named for Clara Barton==
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[[File:Clara Barton - etching by John Sartain.jpg|thumb|Clara Barton – [[steel engraving]] by John Sartain]]

{{anchor|Schools named for Clara Barton}}

===Schools===
There are 25 schools named after Clara Barton
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[Fargo, North Dakota]]
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[Levittown, Pennsylvania]]
* Barton Hall at [[Montclair State University]] in [[Upper Montclair, New Jersey]]
* Clara Barton Elementary on Del Amo Boulevard in [[Long Beach, California]]
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[Alton, Illinois]]
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[Redmond, Washington]]
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin]]
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[Anaheim, California]]
* Barton County Community College in [[Great Bend, Kansas]]
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[The Bronx]]
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[Cherry Hill, New Jersey]]
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]]
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[Corona, California]]
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[Oxford, Massachusetts]]
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[San Diego]] (now San Diego Cooperative Charter School)
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[Rochester, New York]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rcsdk12.org/2|title=Clara Barton School No. 2 / Overview|work=rcsdk12.org|access-date=April 5, 2013|archive-date=March 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325151221/https://www.rcsdk12.org/2|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Clara Barton Elementary School in [[West Mifflin, Pennsylvania]]
* Clara Barton Junior High School in [[Royal Oak, Michigan]]
* [[Clara Barton High School]] for Health Professions in [[Brooklyn]]<!---  there appears to be no "Clara Barton High School" in Elizabeth, New Jersey, see [[Elizabeth Public Schools#Schools]], at least not currently, and no hits in Google on a former school&nbsp;... so drop Clara Barton High School in [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]] --->
* Clara Barton House, a residence hall at [[Towson University]], [[Towson, Maryland]]
* Clara Barton Open School in [[Minneapolis]]
* Clara Barton School in [[Cabin John, Maryland]] (now Clara Barton Community Center)
* Clara Barton School in [[Bordentown, New Jersey]]
* Clara Barton School in [[Fargo, North Dakota]]
* [[Clara Barton School (Philadelphia)|Clara Barton School]] in [[Philadelphia]]

===Streets===
* Clara Barton Road in [[Oxford, Massachusetts]]
* Clara Barton Lane in [[Galveston, Texas]]
* Barton Boulevard in [[Rockledge, Florida]]
* Clara Barton Drive in [[Albany, New York]]
* Clara Barton Drive in [[Fairfax Station, Virginia]]
* [[Clara Barton Parkway]] in Maryland
* Clara Barton Street in [[Dansville, Livingston County, New York|Dansville, New York]]
* Clara Barton Boulevard in [[Garland, TX|Garland, Texas]]
* Clara Barton Circle in [[Sylacauga, AL|Sylacauga, Alabama]]
* Clara Bartonstraat in [[Amsterdam]]
* Barton Road in [[Windsor, Maine]]
* Clara Barton Road in [[Douglas County, Wisconsin]]
* Clara Barton Street in [[Sagua La Grande|Sagua la Grande, Cuba]]

===Other===
[[File:Clara Barton Tree, Sequoia National Park - June 2022 01.jpg|thumb|Clara Barton Tree, Sequoia National Park (June 2022)]]
* [[Barton (crater)|Barton]], a crater on [[Venus]]
* <ref>{{cite web |title=Our namesake: Clara Barton |url=https://www.bartonassociates.com/namesake/ |website=Barton Associates |publisher=Barton |access-date=April 15, 2024 |archive-date=February 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226210258/https://www.bartonassociates.com/namesake/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Barton Associates, [[Peabody, Massachusetts]]
* [[Barton Center for Diabetes Education]], [[North Oxford, Massachusetts]]
* [[Barton County, Kansas]]
* [[Campus of Iowa State University#B|Barton Hall, Iowa State University]]
* Barton House in [[Towson University]]
* Barton Towers, in [[Royal Oak, Michigan]], on the former site of Clara Barton Junior High School
* Barton's Crossing, [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], a homeless shelter<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/cgi-bin/id/shelter.cgi?shelter=8467|title=Bartons Crossing Emergency (BCAC)|work=homelessshelterdirectory.org}}</ref>
* Clara Barton, a Norwegian Air Boeing 737-8MAX (part of Norwegian's "Tailfin Heroes" series)
* [[Clara Barton, New Jersey]], an unincorporated community located within Edison Township
* Clara Barton Auditorium, [[United States Patent and Trademark Office]], [[Alexandria, Virginia]]
* Clara Barton Community Center, [[Cabin John, Maryland]]
* Clara Barton District, a regional association of [[Unitarian Universalist Association]] member congregations
* Clara Barton First Aid Squad, [[Edison, New Jersey]]
* Clara Barton Library Branch, [[Edison, New Jersey]]
* Clara Barton Home and Gardens, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
* Clara Barton Hospital and Clinics, [[Hoisington, Kansas]]
* Clara Barton Memorial Forest in [[Lake Clear, New York]], planted in 1925
* Clara Barton Post Office Building, at 14 Walnut Street in Bordentown, New Jersey<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/bill-announcement-010521-2/|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|title=Bill Announcement}}</ref>
* [[Clara Barton Schoolhouse]], in [[Bordentown, New Jersey]]
* Clara Barton Service Area, on the [[New Jersey Turnpike]] in [[Oldmans Township, New Jersey]]
* Clara Barton Shelter, [[Stony Brook State Park]], Dansville, New York
* Clara Barton Tree, a [[Sequoiadendron giganteum|giant sequoia tree]] in the [[Giant Forest]], [[Sequoia National Park]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.everytrail.com/guide/big-trees-trail-sequoia-national-park/map#poi-6 | title=Trail Map of Big Trees Trail | access-date=December 22, 2015}}</ref>
* Heritage of Clara Barton, Edison, New Jersey, an Assisted Living Community
* Lake Barton in [[Burke, Virginia]]
* The House of Clara Barton at [[The King's College (New York City)]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tkc.edu/student-life/house-system/house-of-clara-barton/ | title=House of Clara Barton | date=July 26, 2019 | access-date=September 16, 2019}}</ref>

==Other remembrances==
[[File:Clara Barton 1948 issue 3c.JPG|thumb|Barton on a 1948 U.S. commemorative stamp]]
[[File:20-03-073-barton.jpg|upright|thumb|Memorial at [[Andersonville National Historic Site]]]]

The [[Clara Barton Homestead]], where Barton was born in [[Massachusetts]] is open to the public as a museum.

A stamp with a portrait of Barton and an image of the American Red Cross symbol was issued in 1948.<ref>{{cite web|author=3c Clara Barton single |url=https://arago.si.edu/record_146740_img_1.html |title=Arago: Clara Barton Issue |publisher=Arago.si.edu |date=n.d.|access-date=July 7, 2019}}</ref>

Barton was inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]] in 1973.<ref name="womenofthehall.org">{{Cite web |title=Barton, Clara |url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/clara-barton/ |publisher=National Women's Hall of Fame}}</ref>

Barton was featured in 1995 in a set of U.S. stamps commemorating the Civil War.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/DisplayPicture.aspx?key=1241082&FileID=/pictures/stamps_large/lg_702807.jpg|title=#2975 1995 32c Civil WarUsed Sheet|website=www.mysticstamp.com}}{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/United-States/2975/USA/|title=1995 32c Civil War|website=www.mysticstamp.com}}</ref>

In 2019, Barton was announced as one of the members of the inaugural class of the ''[[Government Executive]]'' magazine's Government Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web|author=Shoop, Tom   |url=https://www.govexec.com/management/2019/08/inaugural-inductees-government-hall-fame-unveiled/159156/ |title=Inaugural Inductees into Government Hall of Fame Unveiled – Government Executive |date=August 15, 2019 |publisher=Govexec.com |access-date=August 16, 2019}}</ref>

Exhibits in the east wing of the third floor, 3 East, of the [[National Museum of American History]] are focused on the United States at war. The Clara Barton Red Cross ambulance was at one point the signature artifact there but is no longer on display.

The school in the Disney show ''Sydney to the Max'' is named Clara Barton Middle School.

Clara Barton was inducted into the [[New Jersey Hall of Fame]] in 2008.

==Published works==
* Barton, Clara H. ''The Red Cross: In Peace and War''. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Press, 1898.  {{OCLC|1187508}}.
* Barton, Clara H. ''Story of the Red Cross: Glimpses of Field Work''. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1904.  {{OCLC|5807882}}.
* Barton, Clara H. ''The Story of My Childhood''. New York: Baker & Taylor Company, 1907.  Reprinted by Arno Press in 1980.  {{OCLC|6015444}}.

==References==
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==Further reading==
* Barton, William E. ''The Life of Clara Barton Founder of the American Red Cross''. (1922) {{OCLC|164624867}}.
* Burton, David Henry. ''Clara Barton: in the service of humanity'' (Greenwood, 1995); Major scholarly study [https://www.questia.com/library/3590578/clara-barton-in-the-service-of-humanity online] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200409093514/https://www.questia.com/library/3590578/clara-barton-in-the-service-of-humanity |date=April 9, 2020 }}
* Crompton, Samuel Etinde. ''Clara Barton: Humanitarian''. New York: Chelsea House, 2009. {{ISBN|978-1604134926}}. {{OCLC|290489234}}.
* Deady, Kathleen W. ''Clara Barton''. Mankato: Capstone Press, 2003. {{ISBN|0736816046}}. {{OCLC|50022907}}.
* Dulles Foster R. ''The American Red Cross: A History'' (1950)
* Henle, Ellen Langenheim. "Clara Barton, Soldier or Pacifist?." ''Civil War History'' 24.2 (1978): 152–160. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/civil_war_history/v024/24.2.henle.html online]
* Hutchinson, John F. ''Champions of Charity: War and the Rise of the Red Cross''. Boulder: Westview Press, Inc., 1996. {{ISBN|0813325269}} {{OCLC|33948775}}.
* Jones, Marian Moser. ''The American Red Cross from Clara Barton to the New Deal''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1421407388}} {{OCLC|786245443}}
* Joyce, James Avery. ''Red Cross International and the Strategy of Peace''. New York: Oceana Publications, Inc., 1959. {{OCLC|263367}}.
* Oates, Stephen B. ''A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War''. New York: Free Press, 1994. {{ISBN|0029234050}} {{OCLC|29259364}}
* Ross, Ishbel. ''Angel of the Battlefield: The Life of Clara Barton''. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1956. {{OCLC|420062}}.
* Safranski, Debby Burnett. ''Angel of Andersonville, Prince of Tahiti: The Extraordinary Life of Dorence Atwater''. Alling-Porterfield Publishing House, 2008.  {{ISBN|0974976717}} {{OCLC|613558868}}
* {{cite journal|last1=Holder|first1=Victoria L|title=From hand maiden to right hand-the birth of nursing in America|journal=Association of Operations Room Nurses|date=October 2003|volume=78|issue=4|pages=618–632|id={{ProQuest|200782850}}|doi=10.1016/S0001-2092(06)60669-8|pmid=14575186}}
* Barton, Report of Miss Clara 1896, ''Report, America's Relief Expedition to Asia Minor Under the Red Cross''. Journal Publishing Company, Meriden, Conn.

===Historiography===
* Amico, Eleanor B., ed.  ''Reader's Guide to Women's Studies'' ( Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998) pp.&nbsp;56–57

==External links==
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* [https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2008/09/clara-barton.html Clara Barton], Civil War Nurse, Educator And Humanitarian
* [https://www.lwsd.org/programs-and-services/school-construction/major-construction/barton-elementary-school Clara Barton Elementary School – Lake Washington School District]{{Dead link|date=September 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [http://www.nps.gov/clba/ Clara Barton National Historic Site]
* [http://www.clarabartonbirthplace.org Clara Barton Birthplace Museum]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150925045650/http://www.civilwarmed.org/clara-barton-museum/ Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office]
* [http://www.bartoncenter.org The Barton Center For Diabetes Education, Inc.]
* [http://www.footnote.com/spotlight/3261/clara_barton_passport_application_to Clara Barton Passport Application – 1869] (Original document image)
* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms005010 Clara Barton, A Register of Her Papers in the Library of Congress]
* [https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/resources/500 Clara Barton Papers] at the [[Sophia Smith Collection]], Smith College Special Collections
* Michals, Debra.  [https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/clara-barton "Clara Barton"].  National Women's History Museum.  2015.
* The [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:div00415 personal papers] of Clara Barton are in the Harvard Divinity School Library at [[Harvard Divinity School]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]].
* {{Gutenberg author | id=34455| name=Clara Barton}}
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Clara Barton}}
* {{Librivox author |id=1358}}
* [https://blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/clara-barton/ Portrait of Clara Barton] on ICRC Library and Archives blog [https://blogs.icrc.org/cross-files/ CROSS-files]
* [https://archives.lib.umd.edu/repositories/2/resources/968 Clara Barton papers] at the [[University of Maryland Libraries]]

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