does anyone have any info on clara barton? if so please list your sites?

Answer 1

"Among those women who clerked in the Patent Office was Clara Barton (1821 - 1912). Even though she had not been trained as a nurse, she left the Patent Office to become a volunteer nurse (not affiliated with Dorothea Lynde Dix's nursing corps). While she feared that people would view her as a "camp follower," Barton was undeterred and took wagonloads of supplies to the battlefields. During the fighting at Antietam, she took over from a surgeon who was killed as he drank from a cup she had handed him. Although she would cross swords in a rivalry with Dix, Barton emerged from the Civil War as the "Angel of the Battlefield" and went on to found the American Red Cross."

Kenneth C. Davis, 'Don't Know Much About The Civil War"
Harper Perennial, 1996

* See also Mary Anne "Mother" Bickerdyke*