ALS, 1907 May 5 : Glen Echo, Maryland, to Joseph L. Killgore.

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ALS, 1907 May 5 : Glen Echo, Maryland, to Joseph L. Killgore.

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Written on the letterhead of the National First Aid Association of America, Barton writes to thank Killgore, Commander of the New York Association Union Ex-Prisoners of War, for being invited to attend the anniversary of the last recorded death at Andersonville, the Confederate prison in Georgia where 13,000 men died. In 1865 President Lincoln had asked Barton to lead the search for many missing Union men. In this search, she went to Andersonville, to identify and mark the graves of thousands of Union dead.

2 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Barton, Clara, 1821-1912

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Civil War nurse, suffragist, and founder of the American Red Cross Clarissa Harlow Barton was born in North Oxford, MA, on December 25, 1821, the fifth and last child of Stephen and Sarah (Stone) Barton. She was a shy and lonely child, and for two years at the age of eleven she devoted her time to nursing her brother David during a protracted illness, an experience which later affected her life's work. At eighteen she began to teach in neighboring schools. In 1850 she spent a year at the Libe...

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