Discusses the life and work of Clara Barton, a nurse during the Civil War and founder of the American Red Cross.

Resurrecting a lost hero of the Civil War, the author tells the remarkable story of one heroic woman who defied convention in nineteenth-century America to live, work, and defend her country at a time of war, when most women were restricted to home and hearth. Sarah Emma Edmonds was a young Canadian woman who adopted the guise of a man to escape an arranged marriage at seventeen. For two years, living as Franklin Thompson, she enjoyed freedoms that...

An introduction to the life of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.