Clara Barton
Though she is remembered as the founder of the American Red Cross, her only prewar medical experience came when for 2 years she nursed an invalid brother.
http://www.civilwarhome.com/bartonbio.htm

Clara Barton
Clara Barton's civil war work began in April 1861. After the Battle of Bull Run, she established an agency to obtain and distribute supplies to wounded soldiers. In July 1862, she obtained permission to travel behind the lines
http://americancivilwar.com/women/cb.html

Clara Barton
Miss Barton was successively a teacher, battlefield nurse, lecturer, and finally organizer and president of the American Red Cross.
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95dec/barton.html

Clara Barton
With the emergence of the Civil War, Barton refused to take a salary from the government's treasury and dedicated herself aiding soldiers on the front
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/bart-cla.htm

Clara Barton
WheThe outbreak of the Civil War launched her on her life's work. She began to assemble and distribute supplies to the Union soliders. Knowing that nurses were urgently needed at the battlefield, she "broke the shackles and went into the field
http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=17

Clara Barton
After the war she helped staff a missing soldier's bureau in Washington D.C. which helped gather identification records for the missing and the dead
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/barton.html

Clara Barton
Founding and Leading the American Red Cross
http://www.atlantaredcross.org/site/c.csJLKZPLJvH/b.99176...

Clara Barton
In Europe Barton became associated with the International Red Cross, and after her return to the United States in 1873 she campaigned vigorously and successfully for the United States to sign the Geneva Agreement on the treatment of the sick, wounded...
http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Barton_Clara.html

Clara Barton
Later called "the angel of the battlefield," Clara Barton began attending to wounded Union soldiers after the early losses at Bull Run, and her courage in the face of danger soon became legendary.
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/biographies/barton.html