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Monuments to Individuals at Antietam

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The monument to Clara Barton at Antietam is located on Mansfield Avenue. (Mansfield Avenue tour 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

Location of the monument to Clara Barton at Antietam

The monument at Antietam to Clara Barton is north of Sharpsburg on Mansfield Avenue about 400 yards east of the Hagerstown Pike. (39°29’19.9″N 77°44’50.6″W)