All posts tagged "Clara Barton"
-
9.0K6ConnecticutDorence Atwater Records the Atrocities of Andersonville Prison
Dorence Atwater of Terryville, Conn., enlisted in the Union Army expecting to see first-hand the glory of war. Instead he saw its...
-
8.8K7MaineMartha Ballard, Midwife. As Good As, In Some Ways Better Than, the Best Doctors
Martha Ballard somehow managed to deliver 797 babies in the frontier community of Hallowell (now Augusta), Maine, between 1785 and 1812. She...
To Top
