The monument to Clara Barton at Antietam is located on Mansfield Avenue. (see map) It was dedicated on September 9, 1962.
From the main plaque of the monument:
Clara Barton
During The Battle of Antietam
September 17, 1862
Clara Barton brought supplies
and nursing aid to the wounded
on this battlefield
This act of love and mercy
led to the birth of the present
American
National Red Cross
On the base, another plaque explains the red cross:
This symbolic red cross
has been made from a brick
from the chimney of the home
where Clara Barton was born
at North Oxford, Massachusetts
on Christmas Day, 1821
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