Clarissa Barton, known as Clara, would later make history of her own as the “Angel of the Battlefield” in the Civil War and as the founder of the American Red Cross disaster-relief agency.

She does a one-woman presentation in period costumes for each portrayal. Clara Barton ... with the men around her." Barton served on the front lines as a nurse during the Civil War and founded ...

American nurse Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross on this day in history, May 21, 1881. She led the organization until 1904, when she retired to her Maryland home.

Half a century before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had her first nursing experience at age 11, when her older brother fell off a barn roof. For nearly two years she remained at ...

Ask any nurse and she or he will tell you ... (i.e., “Let me translate what the doctor just said.”). When Clara Barton took on nursing during the U.S. Civil War, she was also part soldier ...

Clara, a heart-shaped mascot wearing a nurse's uniform, is named for Clara Barton, an Oxford native who founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Barton was a nurse and a teacher who worked as a ...

The heart-shaped mascot was named after Clara Barton. A native of Oxford, Barton was a teacher, nurse, army medic and the founder of the American Red Cross in 1881. “Having the heart of the ...

The Tampa chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution plans to install a historic marker commemorating Clara Barton, the famed battlefield nurse and founder of the American Red Cross.