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How Red Cross Founder Clara Barton Helped Expose the Truth of a Notorious Confederate Prison

09/15/2023 11:20 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

Published in Military.com Sep 14, 2023 by Stephen Ruiz

Sixteen years before she founded the American Red Cross, Clara Barton established the Missing Soldiers Office in 1865. The office strived to determine what happened to Union troops that had gone missing or were captured during the Civil War. (Wikimedia Commons)

A former schoolteacher working as a clerk for the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C., Barton would find it during the Civil War. A week after Fort Sumter was attacked, Confederate sympathizers assaulted a Union regiment from Massachusetts, Barton's home state, near Baltimore. The unit included some of her former students.

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