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She made such good figures and so often had the examples right that she enjoyed her little slate next best to riding horseback with her brother David.

David did not care much for study, but did like farm work and horses. She was always trying to learn new things.

While she was still a teenager she became a teacher and taught school for about fourteen years.

It was he who taught Clara how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. This experience showed Clara her natural talent and love for nursing.

Clara's First Jobs

Becoming a Teacher

To help Clara overcome her shyness, her parents suggested she become a schoolteacher. There, she learned about the Red Cross in Geneva, Switzerland.

She was a bright pupil and decided she would like to be a teacher like her two sisters.
      
      Clara made an excellent teacher, but was not very well and went to Washington, D.C., to work. Besides the parents, there were two grown-up sisters and two big brothers to pet the new baby.

Then she stepped before the teacher with the other little ones. She almost lost her life, but she continued to serve. She felt as safe on the back of a horse as in a rocking-chair.

Today we see the Red Cross at work when we have disasters such as the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, and most recently the disaster in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast due to hurricane Katrina in 2005.

During the American Civil War, she helped find missing soldiers. She really knew just exactly what sick people needed.
      
      Clara worked in hospitals, camps, and battlefields all the time the four years' war lasted. Clara was a very good teacher, especially with boys, because she could relate to them.

She received many job offers.

As she grew old enough to walk and talk, she followed the family about, repeating all their words and phrases like a parrot. He taught her the names and rank of army officers. Then she stepped before the teacher with the other little ones. This society helped every wounded person, no matter what color he was, no matter what cause or country he fought for.

Clara Barton worked with this Swiss society all through the war between France and Prussia.

She soon had 600 students!

Her next job was working as a clerk in the Patent Officein Washington, D.C. They wanted to pay her less money because she was a woman, but she insisted they pay her a wage equal to what they were paying the men clerks.

When the Civil War started, she wanted to help the soldiers, so she resigned her job at the Patent Office.

Also the name of the United States' president, the vice-president, and members of the president's cabinet.

Clara's eyes looked so big, and her voice was so solemn when she babbled these names that her mother asked her one day what she thought these men looked like.