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She founded the American Red Cross. She also saved many lives tending to the sick and wounded of the Civil War. There is a Clara Barton National Historic Site in Glen Echo, Maryland.

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She was the first nurse in the civil war, and she found 13,000 missing soldiers, and she was the 1st president in the red cross.

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Because she made the American Red Cross

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