A woman of valor : Clara Barton and the Civil War / Stephen B. Oates. [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Free Press, (c)1994.Description: x, 527 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780028740126
- E621.O11.W663 1995
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Withdrawn | G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN | Non-fiction | HV569.B3O3 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 Not for loan | 31923001125943 |
When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency operating in the heart of the conflict. Now, award-winning author Stephen B. Oates, drawing on archival materials not used by her previous biographers, has written the first complete account of Clara Barton's active engagement in the Civil War. By the summer of 1862, with no institutional affiliation or official government appointment, but impelled by a sense of duty and a need to heal, she made her way to the front lines and the heat of battle. Oates tells the dramatic story of this woman who gave the world a new definition of courage, supplying medical relief to the wounded at some of the most famous battles of the war --
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