During the Civil War, Clara Barton did something remarkable: she collected supplies on her own and brought them straight to the front lines, tending to wounded soldiers herself. She was not a doctor and she was not in the military, but she went where the fighting was anyway. That courage is what got her called the angel of the battlefield, and it did not end when the war did.
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It's American Rewind.
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Clara Barton wasn't a doctor or a soldier, but when the American Civil War came, she sought them out.
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At first, she collected bandages, food, and medicine, bringing them to the battlefields herself.
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She crossed lines, entered hospitals, and cared for men whose names she didn't know, going places where most people were trying to escape.
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Her heroics earned her a nickname, the angel of the Battlefield.
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And when the war ended, with President Abraham Lincoln's permission, she opened the Office of Missing Soldiers.
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From that perch, she helped reunite more than 20,000 soldiers with her family.
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And if that weren't enough, during a trip to Switzerland, she found herself in awe of a group of volunteers who inspired the American Red Cross.
