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Paper Abstract: Examines life & work of founder of the American Red Cross & her legacy. Paper Introduction: The biography of Clara Barton (whose full name was Clarissa Harlowe Barton) cannot be written without also writing in some measure the history of the American Red Cross as well as that of the history of nursing. This paper examines the work of this founder of the American Red Cross, looking at both her own life and especially at her work during the major battles of the American Civil War. In order to set her work in the proper historical framework, it also provides a very brief overview of the history of nursing as a profession, a profession with which she is – along with Florence Nightingale – responsible in many ways for creating in its contemporary form and at the American Red Cross, of which Barton is the founder. Barton, born in 1821 and dying in 1912, dedicated her life to humanitarian causes, of which the Red Cross was perhaps the singl Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. that of the history of In order to set her work contemporaryform and at the American Red Cross Massachusetts and educated mostly athome chiefly by could not easily have been did without the constantencouragement of her large family and fevers and a headache fromthe fall and doctors a slimy black leech from her brother for two years and it was at the start of the American Civil War to known as the Missing SoldiersOffice and her work with the Red Cross which has always distinction betweenblack and white soldiers Her goal was always and to do so can perhaps best be heard in here while anyone remains and do whatever comes to and nurse them Fishwick p American history to help provide the or killed Barton must have beenable to so she worked to help thousands of Northern soldiers who had died Iron Cross for outstanding military service Through Barton's in Geneva She was responsible for theintroduction at this Civil War it should at least be mentioned that this War and in the SouthAfrican War Barton's work as a humanitarian was inspired at least same rights as men She had rejected marriage which had taught school in Massachusetts and had established the first quite ably outside the home and she saw to becomea soldier another way to put this argument her own considerable skills It is importance of theimpartiality of compassion Knowing her Nightingale willing to subsume herself entirely male and female ideal traits If I can't be This does not mean that she during the Civil War Barton met doctors and surgeons who and ointments wrapped injuries in bandages could accept it she fed it to those woundedsoldier to hive him water A bullet tore on the battlefield She also helped better the lives of Unionsoldiers by in immediate command Williams p and sought to did nothing to helpalleviate their suffering caused the clergy on May For the first time in for the wounded men or for Barton's work can be seen to It is essentialto look not only at the and other civiliansaffected by war are cared is no accident that both she and Nightingaleperformed some of nursing presents us with an amateur calling Fromthe Hospitalers Toward the end of the th those who provided nursing care were commonly persons who States the Spanish-American War and later World War I established however brought aboutanother increased demand for Since the end of WorldWar II delivery system during a period century owes much to what she saw bothcaring for men and later women wounded on the battlefield American National RedCross was first chartered and first Cross is required to act as amedium and other disasters and to an organization that could channel they knew how Americaunderstands but vaguely the steps fail as it has always failed in all similar Barton did not have to begin from the ground have feltthe need for an institution like the Red Cross to the leaders of nations to foundsocieties and was attended by delegates from nations Another conference was also at this meeting that conferences held in and In additionalprotocols representativesand aid to many countries around the Cross services are organized into several programs Britannica CD-ROM version entry on American normalliving The blood services program is the largest nation's first bone marrow registry established in the and assists in otherhealth services provided for communities Under the services in a community Barton's handin creating an agency with Conclusion Clara Barton is remembered that women can do as someone important toconsider Barton's life in the she did if she had not lived in atime public life of a democracy References Encyclopedia Britannica CD-ROM War New York The Free Press Whitelaw N Clara Barton also writing in some measure own life and especially at her work during the major a profession a profession with which she is along life tohumanitarian causes of which the Red Cross the founder of various free schools in a lisp that made her even shier She mightnot fell when he wasworking on the Barton took over the task it lost its grip and fell back into a jar herdesire to do good Whitelaw p In she became shesupervised a systematic search for missing soldier and eventually the office wasclosed in Her impartiality during the Civil War they were fighting under During the Civil War that need hadbeen generated in a way that she considered are ready to bind the wounds or to never to fear it and while our soldiers of the instruments of surrender but she been affected by a conflict especially the civilian hashappened to a loved one or even not knowing where She is perhapsbest known in this regard in Europe where she helpedestablish In she represented the United States at the Red victims of war Although this paper focuses on in Florida in the Johnstown Pennsylvania flood in the at Galveston Texas in before she diedin chance to contribute tosociety Barton hated all restrictions on women marriage and motherhood as the female ideal and mature enough to work in the U S Patent p Indeed one might well argue that would have followed to thedetriment of history to compensate for depriving the country and the world of American Red Cross rather thanseeing nursing as the Civil War shows acombination of generalship as a nurse was not greater than anything she could August battle at Culpeper Virgina where Union soldiers lost eagerly accepted the supplies she had brought Rushing from army biscuits crushed and mixed with wine water the war occurred during one ofits most infamous battles that to see how she couldhelp him Williams p Barton's most good After the Battle of Spottsylvania in May andbefore unspeakable destitution and suffering of or a drink of water as they lay on her feelings over this incident to wring from me a public call for with theAmerican Red Cross are clearly directly related to each more tangential to thiseffort than the work record and how it shaped the way a role for women and femaleauxiliary medical services that was are often given greater autonomy and power because During the Crusades for example some military were dirty and pestilentplaces where th century with the advent many nurses were unemployed andthe number people who agreedto engage in number of medications and to design the work of nurses in Nightingale's work intraining nurses ensured that Barton's Legacy in Establishing the American Red Cross The organization owesits founding its sense of purpose and much of a system of national and international relief toalleviate suffering many ofthese concerns is very much evident in the Civil War when she so often saw soldiers so Americans needed a definite and well-arrangedorganization to accomplish to be shipped intelligently and reach at once able to join an international movement withthe same concerns That th-century Swissphilanthropist Jean Henri Dunant Appalled by a call for an international conference Geneva Convention laying downrules for the treatment of the wounded in non-Christian countries The principlesenunciated in the first all types of conflicts international as well as domestic civil strife Thefederation also assists victims of in solving personal problems This programprovides counseling and for disaster victims andrehabilitation assistance for the use of patients Clinicalresearch is an integral part disasters sponsors classes in home nursing and resuscitation Inthe youth involvement program young people take responsibility in clear how pleased shewould be would not be stopped by the biases of not emphasize her own personal courage integrity and did had she been a lesser person But nor the imperative of professionalizing nursing and Burdett Oates S B A woman of valor J P Lippincott The biography of Clara Barton whose full nursing Thispaper examines the work of this founder of in the proper historicalframework it also of which Barton is the founder Barton born in her two brothers and two sisters predicted from her earlychildhood when she was an almost unnaturally without an incident that happenedwhen she prescribed the then-popular panacea of applying aleech a glass jar andapplying it to her one of the first experiencesthat gave work as avolunteer distributing supplies became the first woman to head a government bureau maintained as one of itscentral tenets the importance only to provide help forthose who her own words onthe subject Early in the Civil War my hand I may be Barton was certainly not the first to institutions necessary tomake the endgame of war a sense the way that families can be identify and repatriate the bodies of those whowould have otherwise and were lyingin unmarked graves in efforts the American Red Cross Society was formed in convention of the American amendment whichestablished that the Red Cross was hardly theonly field of conflict on which she The last work that she in part by herdesire to see that she associated with death and had turned public school in Bordentown New Jersey Then she had convinced no reason why a woman of her qualifications is to say that if she hard to believe that she could have made own philosophy it is not surprising that Barton's talentstook in the traditional feminine skills andvirtues asolider I'll help soliders she once said was averse to doing the hard work struggled to relieve pain and suffering despite insufficient and comforted wounded and weary men She created the most who could not feed themselves through her sleeve and struck thesoldier raised money and public awareness when she helping to organize relief and supplies change this situation Her sight her to alert the War the history of the war the magnitude and money to buy food forthem be part of the professionalization ofnursing particular work she did at specific Civil Warbattles for if one is to of their most important work during beginnings of human history nursing care century nursing wasconsidered an unsuitable occupation for proper young had beenimprisoned for drunkenness or who could the need for more nursesin both military and civilian nurses The Cadet Nurse Corps established in subsidized technological advances in medicine and health have required nursesto of rapid change Barton's nursing work on the battlefield helped anddid during the Civil War Barton's work and in naturaldisasters and in chartered by Congress in Asecond charter still in of communication between members of devise measures for preventing such calamities Barton's personalconcerns and her mercyand generosity intelligently This was one of the key lessons necessary to gather send and bestowgifts Williams p she realized efforts at foreign aid Williams p Such an organization up with her ideas for theAmerican is not surprising Initiative for founding devoted to the aid of the wounded held in Geneva the following year and the famous symbolof the movement the white flag were added to the Geneva Conventions of world to help detainees prisoners ofwar and thatreflect the concerns of the international agency Red Cross The disaster services program sets up disaster-preparedness plans blood donor service inthe world Blood given by volunteers is mid s The nursing and auspices of the safetyservices program trained instructors most of these particular goals should be clear from as a savior of lives during the of enormous personal courage andfortitude These are certainly all truthful larger scheme of the history of that was beginning to show the version entry on American RedCross Fishwick Civil War nurse Springfield NJ Enslow Publishers Williams the historyof the American Red Cross as well as battles ofthe American Civil War with FlorenceNightingale responsible in many ways for creating in its was perhaps the single mostnoteworthy example Born in Oxford New Jersey Her later success have been able to achieve what she rafters of the barn He developed of treatingDavid several times a day lifting of water She continued tonurse a clerk in the Patent Office Washington D C butresigned receiveda Congressional appropriation to run what was can be seen as a clear precedentto she treated bothConfederate and Union soldiers equally and made no to be appropriate Her courageand determination bear them of our own if necessary I shall remain can stand and fight I can stand and feed was one of thefirst in familymembers of soldiers who had been wounded a soldier's body lies and for her work in providing an AndersonvilleCemetery for the hospitals during the Franco-Prussian War and washonored with Germany's Cross Conference and atthe International Peace Convention the work that Barton performed duringthe Russian famine among theArmenians in the Spanish-American Glen Echo Maryland on April because of their sex and thought them entitled to the She had become a single working woman Office She had demonstrated that a woman could function if Barton had been allowed and to the squandering of herskills as an administrator and as a symbol of the an end in itself She was not a Florence and compassion that combines the best oftraditional stereotypical have done as asoldier Williams p a fierce battle andmany soldiers is typical of her work one wounded solider to another Barton cleaned wounds applied oils and brown sugar She gave this out to those who of Antietam when she bent over a work during the Civil War was not only Fredericksburg she began to try to thewounded were augmented by officers blood-wettedfloors in an old hotel in Fredericksburg while officers in a letter addressedto a number of members of aid Williams p She asked for food other Barton's Work as Part of the Professionalization of Nursing of someone like Florence Nightingale modernwars are fought and modern soldiers and their families as important as the role traditionallyheld by male physicians It menare engaged in combat The early history orders of knights also provided nursing care most notablythe Knights patients usually died Whitelaw p As a result of theNightingale training schools for nurses In the United of schools declined World War II nursing for the duration of the war nursing care appropriatefor the health care MASH and othermilitary units throughout the th women would serve a vital function in American Red Cross officially titled the its current direction toBarton Under its charter the American Red caused by pestilence flood fire organization Americans needed to create needing reliefand people who would provide that relief if only perceptible good or it would otherwise a field in needof them Williams p others with similar experiences should the almost complete lack ofcare for wounded soldiers he appealed whichwas held in Geneva in October and for the protection of medicalpersonnel and hospitals It was Geneva Convention were subsequently revised andamended at Over the decades the ICRC and the Federation have sent natural and human-made disasters American Red in emergencies facilitates rapid communicationsand makes available financial assistance Encyclopedia to help individuals and families resume of the service Other programs are a tissuesservice and the preparation forparenthood works in the blood services program leading planning and carrying out Red Cross by the results of one of her most important works her time against thegood work vision would be fair or accurate But it is also could she have accomplished what the rolethat women could and must play in the Clara Barton and the Civil name was Clarissa HarloweBarton cannot be written without the American Red Cross lookingat both her provides a very brief overview of the history of nursingas and dying in dedicated her she became first ateacher and shy child timid and afraidof strangers and speaking with was nine years old That year her brother David to remove his bad Blood brother's neck until it became so bloated with bloodthat her confidence in her self and a possible direction for to wounded soldiers After the war Bartontracked down information on nearly soldiers before of treating anyone in need regardless ofwhich flag needed it without making distinctions over whether for example she wrote to her father We compelled to face danger But recognize that a war does notend at the signing more humanitarian period of history for all ofthose who had haunted by not knowing what spent eternity in a nameless grave Andersonville's prison camp Fishwick p Between and Barton lived she served as the first president of the organization until was to serve victims of peacetime disastersas well as won honor She superintended reliefwork in the yellow-fever pestilence personally directed was therelief of victims of the flood women were granted their fair her back on the idea of male bureaucrats that she was competent and attributes wouldn't make a splendid soldier Oates had beena man then that is the path that she such a contribution to theUnion cause her on the path to organizing the associated with nursing Her work during and it is hard to imagine thather work involvedin actual nursing This description of her work after the bandages medications salves and painkillers They nutritious meal possible with available supplies bowls of Whitelaw pp And perhaps Barton's most famous act of who died She went to the next living soldier felt that thiswould do the She had seen firsthand and many times how the her men beggingher for a piece of cracker Department to whatwas happening Williams pp She wrote about intensity of suffering and want are so appalling as The connections between such actions and her later work although her work is obviously somewhat but to look overall at her appreciate Barton's role inhistory Barton's work was essential in providing wartime a historicalmoment when women was usually provided byvolunteers who had little or no training women undoubtedlydue to the fact that hospitals in those days not find work elsewhere Modern nursing began in the mid life During the depression of the s nursing education for thousands of young become knowledgeable about sophisticated equipment to learn about anincreasing lay down the fundamentalsfor nursing during wartime and with the Red Cross allied with helping to reunited families separated by both militaryand civilian horrors force was granted in The the armed forces and theirfamilies to carry on work during the Civil War which gave a shape to that she hadlearned from the after her experiences in theCivil War and Barton wrote would allow relief goodsand workers Red Cross for she was the Red Cross came from the in wartime Five Swiss citizensformed a committee and issued officialdelegates of nations signed the first bearing a red cross was adopted Thissymbol was later modified to protect all non-combatants in refugees of war political upheaval or Services to the armedforces and veterans help and when disaster occurs provides emergency care collected processed and madeavailable to physicians and hospitals health services program enrolls registered nurses toserve in them volunteers teach firstaid small-craft and water safety and cardiopulmonary thisbrief overview of her life and it should be equally Civil War as a woman who descriptions of her and noreport of her life that does her times She could not have accomplished what she world the importance of internationalrelief efforts M Illustrious Americans Clara Barton MorristownNJ Silver B C Clara Barton Daughter of destiny Philadelphia that of the history of In order to set her work contemporaryform and at the American Red Cross Massachusetts and educated mostly athome chiefly by could not easily have been did without the constantencouragement of her large family and fevers and a headache fromthe fall and doctors a slimy black leech from her brother for two years and it was at the start of the American Civil War to known as the Missing SoldiersOffice and her work with the Red Cross which has always distinction betweenblack and white soldiers Her goal was always and to do so can perhaps best be heard in here while anyone remains and do whatever comes to and nurse them Fishwick p American history to help provide the or killed Barton must have beenable to so she worked to help thousands of Northern soldiers who had died Iron Cross for outstanding military service Through Barton's in Geneva She was responsible for theintroduction at this Civil War it should at least be mentioned that this War and in the SouthAfrican War Barton's work as a humanitarian was inspired at least same rights as men She had rejected marriage which had taught school in Massachusetts and had established the first quite ably outside the home and she saw to becomea soldier another way to put this argument her own considerable skills It is importance of theimpartiality of compassion Knowing her Nightingale willing to subsume herself entirely male and female ideal traits If I can't be This does not mean that she during the Civil War Barton met doctors and surgeons who and ointments wrapped injuries in bandages could accept it she fed it to those woundedsoldier to hive him water A bullet tore on the battlefield She also helped better the lives of Unionsoldiers by in immediate command Williams p and sought to did nothing to helpalleviate their suffering caused the clergy on May For the first time in for the wounded men or for Barton's work can be seen to It is essentialto look not only at the and other civiliansaffected by war are cared is no accident that both she and Nightingaleperformed some of nursing presents us with an amateur calling Fromthe Hospitalers Toward the end of the th those who provided nursing care were commonly persons who States the Spanish-American War and later World War I established however brought aboutanother increased demand for Since the end of WorldWar II delivery system during a period century owes much to what she saw bothcaring for men and later women wounded on the battlefield American National RedCross was first chartered and first Cross is required to act as amedium and other disasters and to an organization that could channel they knew how Americaunderstands but vaguely the steps fail as it has always failed in all similar Barton did not have to begin from the ground have feltthe need for an institution like the Red Cross to the leaders of nations to foundsocieties and was attended by delegates from nations Another conference was also at this meeting that conferences held in and In additionalprotocols representativesand aid to many countries around the Cross services are organized into several programs Britannica CD-ROM version entry on American normalliving The blood services program is the largest nation's first bone marrow registry established in the and assists in otherhealth services provided for communities Under the services in a community Barton's handin creating an agency with Conclusion Clara Barton is remembered that women can do as someone important toconsider Barton's life in the she did if she had not lived in atime public life of a democracy References Encyclopedia Britannica CD-ROM War New York The Free Press Whitelaw N Clara Barton also writing in some measure own life and especially at her work during the major a profession a profession with which she is along life tohumanitarian causes of which the Red Cross the founder of various free schools in a lisp that made her even shier She mightnot fell when he wasworking on the Barton took over the task it lost its grip and fell back into a jar herdesire to do good Whitelaw p In she became shesupervised a systematic search for missing soldier and eventually the office wasclosed in Her impartiality during the Civil War they were fighting under During the Civil War that need hadbeen generated in a way that she considered are ready to bind the wounds or to never to fear it and while our soldiers of the instruments of surrender but she been affected by a conflict especially the civilian hashappened to a loved one or even not knowing where She is perhapsbest known in this regard in Europe where she helpedestablish In she represented the United States at the Red victims of war Although this paper focuses on in Florida in the Johnstown Pennsylvania flood in the at Galveston Texas in before she diedin chance to contribute tosociety Barton hated all restrictions on women marriage and motherhood as the female ideal and mature enough to work in the U S Patent p Indeed one might well argue that would have followed to thedetriment of history to compensate for depriving the country and the world of American Red Cross rather thanseeing nursing as the Civil War shows acombination of generalship as a nurse was not greater than anything she could August battle at Culpeper Virgina where Union soldiers lost eagerly accepted the supplies she had brought Rushing from army biscuits crushed and mixed with wine water the war occurred during one ofits most infamous battles that to see how she couldhelp him Williams p Barton's most good After the Battle of Spottsylvania in May andbefore unspeakable destitution and suffering of or a drink of water as they lay on her feelings over this incident to wring from me a public call for with theAmerican Red Cross are clearly directly related to each more tangential to thiseffort than the work record and how it shaped the way a role for women and femaleauxiliary medical services that was are often given greater autonomy and power because During the Crusades for example some military were dirty and pestilentplaces where th century with the advent many nurses were unemployed andthe number people who agreedto engage in number of medications and to design the work of nurses in Nightingale's work intraining nurses ensured that Barton's Legacy in Establishing the American Red Cross The organization owesits founding its sense of purpose and much of a system of national and international relief toalleviate suffering many ofthese concerns is very much evident in the Civil War when she so often saw soldiers so Americans needed a definite and well-arrangedorganization to accomplish to be shipped intelligently and reach at once able to join an international movement withthe same concerns That th-century Swissphilanthropist Jean Henri Dunant Appalled by a call for an international conference Geneva Convention laying downrules for the treatment of the wounded in non-Christian countries The principlesenunciated in the first all types of conflicts international as well as domestic civil strife Thefederation also assists victims of in solving personal problems This programprovides counseling and for disaster victims andrehabilitation assistance for the use of patients Clinicalresearch is an integral part disasters sponsors classes in home nursing and resuscitation Inthe youth involvement program young people take responsibility in clear how pleased shewould be would not be stopped by the biases of not emphasize her own personal courage integrity and did had she been a lesser person 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