When did Clara Barton create the Red Cross?

Answer 1

Civil War nurse Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. Barton was a teacher and a U.S. Patent Office clerk before devoting herself to nursing in the American Civil War (1861-65). She earned the nickname "the angel of the battlefield" and in 1864 was named superintendent of all Union nurses. In the 1870s, officials of the International Red Cross invited her to help form a branch of the service in the U.S.; she agreed, and led the American Red Cross for its first 26 years.

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Answer 2

Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross on May 21, 1881.

Answer 3

Clara Barton learned about the Red Cross in 1869 when she was visiting Switzerland. She founded the American Red Cross in May of 1881.

Answer 4

In the middle of World War II. She wanted to help injured people so bad, the idea just popped into her head in the middle of war so she started her own business

Answer 5

Clara barton created the cross in the 1800s.

Answer 6

at age 60 in 1881

Answer 7

she founded it in 1881