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In addition to civilian efforts, more than 3,000 women served as paid nurses during the Civil War, the most famous being Clara Barton who went on to establish the American Red Cross in 1882. | |||
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Heroes
& Heroines of the War, engraving by Thomas Nast, 1863
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