Angel of the Battlefield, part two

Discover fascinating people and ideas in American history and the Bible through short stories on This Week's Story mp3 audio and text for reading.

Wounded soldiers and victims in disaster meet The Angel of the Battlefield, Clara Barton!

Clara Barton’s throat was raw and her nose dripping as winter air bit into her. She was determined to hear Abraham Lincoln give his first presidential inaugural speech. People were predicting that he would be assassinated before he became president. Many Southerners believed that he represented the enemy, The North. Now he stood, a very tall and thin man...
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