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Clara barton biography...
Captain Barton: Advising His Daughter To “Serve and Sacrifice”
For Father’s Day
Clara Barton wanted to make a difference.
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She wanted to go to the battlefield and camps to care for the sick and wounded. For long weeks of 1861, she had been laying her plans, strengthening her political connections, and renewing acquaintances with Massachusetts boys — even some of her former school pupils — now in Union uniform.
The preparations neared completion, but Barton worried about the propriety of her next step. How would soldiers treat her?
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What would they think of her? During a visit to her family home in March 1862, Barton confided her plans and her fears to her father, anxious for advice.
By 1862, Captain Stephen Barton was on his deathbed, but he had spent years inspiring his youngest daughter with family stories of patriotism and soldiering.
Born in 1774, he had grown up in the days of the Revolutionary War and had later fought with “Mad” Anthony Wayne in the Indi