The American Civil War is alternatively known as the bloodiest war in American history. During this war, over 620,000 individuals lost their lives to fight for ideas they believed would be best for the future of the country. Unfortunately, in addition to casualties of war, countless people died as a result of disease. Medicine was still not technologically advanced to the point where it could compete against such grand injuries. However, a copious amount of lives were saved due to the efforts of a multitude of doctors and nurses. One of the most notorious and honored nurses in American medical history is a woman named Clarissa Harlowe Barton, more commonly known as Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross. Clara Barton was the
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A majority of job positions were dominated by males while women were left with household chores. "Of those who did leave home, over twenty thousand sought work in the military hospitals of the Confederacy and Union" (Schultz Pg.363). Clara Barton would go on to become one of the 20,000 women who would go against the social conformity. She did become a school teacher, a position commonly filled by men, and eventually opened her own school six years later. Barton moved on to another job at the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. as their first female clerk. In 1861, federal troops attacked soldiers in the Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore, and Barton rushed over to help the wounded and gather supplies. She reached out to her friends to do the same and created a network of volunteers that would help the troops throughout the entirety of the …show more content…
Patent Office and sought out how she could devote all of her time, heart, and effort to helping the injured. Barton persistently asked leaders in both the government and army to give her formal permission to fully bring her services onto the battlefields and in the field hospitals. She tended to the injured in the following battles: First Battle of Bull Run, Second Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Harpers Ferry, Battle of South Mountain, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Fairfax Station, Battle of Chantilly, Battle of Charleston, Battle of Petersburg, and the Battle of Cold Harbor (American Red
A majority of job positions were dominated by males while women were left with household chores. "Of those who did leave home, over twenty thousand sought work in the military hospitals of the Confederacy and Union" (Schultz Pg.363). Clara Barton would go on to become one of the 20,000 women who would go against the social conformity. She did become a school teacher, a position commonly filled by men, and eventually opened her own school six years later. Barton moved on to another job at the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. as their first female clerk. In 1861, federal troops attacked soldiers in the Massachusetts Regiment in Baltimore, and Barton rushed over to help the wounded and gather supplies. She reached out to her friends to do the same and created a network of volunteers that would help the troops throughout the entirety of the …show more content…
Patent Office and sought out how she could devote all of her time, heart, and effort to helping the injured. Barton persistently asked leaders in both the government and army to give her formal permission to fully bring her services onto the battlefields and in the field hospitals. She tended to the injured in the following battles: First Battle of Bull Run, Second Battle of Bull Run, Battle of Harpers Ferry, Battle of South Mountain, Battle of Antietam, Battle of Fredericksburg, Battle of Fairfax Station, Battle of Chantilly, Battle of Charleston, Battle of Petersburg, and the Battle of Cold Harbor (American Red