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050 0 4 _aE621.O11.W663 1995
100 1 _aOates, Stephen B,
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245 1 2 _aA woman of valor :
_bClara Barton and the Civil War /
_cStephen B. Oates.
_hPR
260 _aNew York :
_bFree Press,
_c(c)1994.
300 _ax, 527 pages :
_billustrations, map ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _a1 (pages 389-511) and index.
520 0 _aWhen 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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600 1 0 _aBarton, Clara,
_d1821-1912.
600 1 2 _aBarton, Clara,
_d1821-1912.
650 0 _aNurses
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_dCynthia Snell