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Article: Those Other Battlefield Heroes; Frederick Museum to Offer Look at Civil War Medicine
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- The Washington Post
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- June 30, 1994
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With the gunshots and screams of the Civil War raging around
her, Union nurse Clara Barton knelt to help a wounded soldier -
until some ammunition cut through the sleeve of her dress and killed
her patient.
Barton, a legendary nurse who helped found the American
Association of the Red Cross, didn't save the soldier, but her work
led to the rescue of countless future lives because she helped women
and other health care workers find a place on the battlefield.
Although such medical teams operated with only primitive
understanding of the human body, they helped develop medical
services that have save millions of civilians and members of the
armed forces.
Now, after years of planning, a ...