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Clara Barton National Historic Site
Primary Source Documents and Research Resources

"Primary Source" On-Line Documents Table of Contents:

February 21, 1866
Clara Barton testifies during the 39th Congress, First Session, concerning her experiences and observations while working in Andersonville, Georgia. Her testimony is recorded in the official record for the Reports of the Committees of the House of Representatives.
 www.nps.gov/clba/chron2/cbcongress.htm

March 10, 1866
The United States Congress appropriates $15,000 to reimburse Miss Barton for expenses associated with her search for missing soldiers.
 www.nps.gov/clba/historyculture/66res.htm

1878
Clara Barton writes and distributes a small pamphlet, The Red Cross of the Geneva Convention: What It Is.
 www.nps.gov/clba/chron3/rcwhat.htm

1892
Miss Barton composes and delivers her poem, The Women Who Went to the Field.
 www.nps.gov/clba/historyculture/fieldpoem.htm

1900
September 8, 1900 a hurricane devastated Galveston Texas. Miss Barton directs her last major field relief work in the wake of a storm which left 6,000 dead. In two months, the operation distributes $120,000 worth of money and supplies and one and a half million strawberry plants.
 www.nps.gov/clba/historyculture/strawberry.htm

1902
Clara Barton heads the U. S. delegation to the Seventh International Conference of the Red Cross held in St. Petersburg, Russia. She publishes her official report.
 www.nps.gov/clba/chron3/russia.htm



 

Portrait of a young Carter G. Woodson  

Did You Know?
Carter G. Woodson was born December 19, 1875 in New Canton, Virginia. He was unable to go to school until he moved to Huntington, West Virginia -- when he was 20 years old.

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