Clara Barton (1821-1912), working as a volunteer, brings wagonloads of medical supplies to the Antietam Battlefield. As a patent office clerk in Washington in 1861 she sees wounded soldiers, making her determined to help any way she can.
A self-taught nurse, she goes to the battlefront and risks her life to provide whatever care she can to the sea of wounded soldiers. Throughout the Civil War, she is so successful that she becomes known as the “Angel of the Battlefield.”
After the war, she spends years searching for soldiers lost in the conflict and then travels overseas. She comes home with the mission to create the American Red Cross and spends her final years in Glen Echo, MD, turning the Red Cross into an American institution.
