Nurse Clarissa Harlowe "Clara" Barton was born on Christmas ... SOLO FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC At the time of the American Civil War, Barton shifted her career once again, becoming a battlefield ...

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History Detective host Eduardo Pagán consults a Clara Barton biographer, a civil war prison historian, and a Pennsylvania genealogist to determine whether an 1866 letter about the death of a ...