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Clara Barton, the "Angel of the Battlefield," attends to wounded soldiers in the Civil War.
Date: 1862
War & massacres
Medical system (Western medicine)
Barton runs supplies, and tends to the wounded on both sides of the battlefield. She becomes known as the "Angel of the Battlefield."
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