Clara Barton and the Red Cross- Ian and Maya

This is a picture of a female nurse. During the civil war when many of the men were called of tho fight, Woman take their place in factories and farms as well as starting to help the army as spies, messengers, scouts, soldiers or nurses like the one above. She is wearing a red cross arm band to show that she is a nurse. The arm band has the red crosses symbol (the red cross).

This a letter that Clara Barton wrote to her secretary. I was unable to find a translation and I can't read her letter, so I don't know what it says.

This is another, less clear, picture of a nurse. You can just barely see her arm band attached to her left arm, right above the elbow.

Here is a picture of a nurse working on a patient in one of their field hospitals. Treatment was poor and sanitation was even poorer. Few surgeons washed hands in between surgeries. As a result fever spread through field hospitals like a wildfire and for every person who died in battle 3 people died by disease.

Crude tools also played there toll. Back then people thought it was best to open up the wound and air it as much as possible, and as a result thousands of soldiers lost their arms or legs.