Clara Barton: The Life and Legacy of the Civil War Nurse Who Founded the American Red Cross - Audiobook, by Charles River Editors

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The Civil War is often considered one of the first modern wars, and while technology affected what happened on the battlefield, technology and new methods also improved the way soldiers were cared for away from the front lines. Civil War medicine is understandably (and rightly) considered primitive by 21st century standards, but the ways in which injured and sick soldiers were removed behind the lines and nursed were considered state-of-the-art in the 1860s, and nobody was more responsible for that than Clara Barton, the Florence Nightingale of America.Barton had been an educator and clerk before the Civil War broke out in 1861, but almost immediately, she went to work attempting to nurse i…