Half a century before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton had her first nursing experience ... food and supplies to aid 14,000 survivors. The Red Cross was officially incorporated ...

by Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross. As the first woman to head a government bureau she answered 63,182 letters and identified 22,000 missing men between 1865 and 1869. Inform ...

It was Clara Barton ... After the war Barton would travel overseas, where she worked with the International Red Cross to provide aid during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.