A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War by Stephen B. Oates

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/447157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Woman of Valor: Clara Barton and the Civil War Author: Stephen B. Oates Narrator: Laural Merlington Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 17 minutes Release date: December 1, 2020 Genres: History & Culture Publisher's Summary: When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency operating in the heart of the conflict. Now, award-winning author Stephen B. Oates, drawing on archival materials not used by her previous biographers, has written the first complete account of Clara Barton's active engagement in the Civil War. By the summer of 1862, with no institutional affiliation or official government appointment, but impelled by a sense of duty and a need to heal, she made her way to the front lines and the heat of battle. Oates tells the dramatic story of this woman who gave the world a new definition of courage, supplying medical relief to the wounded at some of the most famous battles of the war—including Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Battery Wagner, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Petersburg. Committed to healing soldiers' spirits as well as their bodies, she served not only as nurse and relief worker, but as surrogate mother, sister, wife, or sweetheart to thousands of sick, wounded, and dying men.