Question

How did women like clara barton contribute to the war effort?

Answer 1

Clara Barton is a well known women of being "Angel of the Battlefield". Also she would go an see the prisoners from the war and inform their families on what was going on. She eventually found the American Red Cross, that helped wounded soldiers at the end of the war. 

Also another answer for the APEX founders: They were active in providing nursing care to the wounded soldiers. 

Answer 2

Answer:

Clara Barton was an American nurse and humanitarian during the Civil War. She has been described as an untamable spirit and is especially remembered for organizing the American Red Cross.

Explanation:

In April 1861, after the First Battle of Bull Run, Barton created an agency to obtain and distribute supplies to wounded soldiers. General William Hammond gave her a pass to travel in the army ambulances to give comfort to the soldiers and cure them. She pressured the Union Army bureaucracy, first unsuccessfully, to bring their own medical supplies to the battlefield. Finally, in July 1862, she obtained permission to travel behind the battle line, reaching the darkest battlefields and serving during the sieges of Petersburg, Virginia, and Richmond, Virginia. In 1864, Union General Benjamin Butler named her "lady manager" of the hospitals in charge of James's Army.  

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln commissioned her to search for missing persons of the Union army. While she was engaged in this work, she found out about the whereabouts of 30,000 men. When the war was over, she was sent to Andersonville, Georgia to install and mark the tombs of Union soldiers who were buried there. This experience motivated her to start a national campaign to identify the missing soldiers during the Civil War. She published lists of names in the newspapers and corresponded with the families of the soldiers.

Barton gave talks about his experiences of war. She met Susan B. Anthony and began a long association with the suffrage movement. She also met Frederick Douglass and became an activist for the civil rights of blacks.