Clara Barton
Barton was called 'the angel of...' this setting
What is '...the battlefield'?
It was the outbreak of this war that Barton's nursing skills came to the forefront
What is the Civil War?
Though a country boy, Jackson was able to get into this prestigious military school
What is West Point?
Edison's name is remembered for his feats in this area
What is invention?
What is fear/shyness/self-consciousness?
It was the lack of care for injured soldiers that pressed Barton to take this step, an unprecedented one for a woman
What is travel to the battlefront?
Later Jackson taught this, among other things, at the Virginia Military Institute
What is artillery?
As a child, Edison had a voracious appetite for these
What are books?
Barton gained her first experience in nursing when caring for her brother at this tender age
What is 11 years old?
After the war, Barton took up this cause in service to President Lincoln and continued it after his death
What is answering letters and investigating 'missing' soldiers?
Though Jackson was respected, he had a reputation as a man of this sort
What is eccentric?
Edison was an opportunist, such as his seizing the moment during the Civil War to sell these
What are newspapers?
Barton's success as a teacher was displayed in the one-year growth of a student body she oversaw, from six to this hefty sum!
What is 600?
Later Barton brought the banner of this international organization to the US
What is the Red Cross?
What is truthful?
Edison's study of telegraph led early on to an interesting experiment involving two of these
What are cats?
After retiring from teaching, Barton worked in the office of this Commissioner
What is the Commissioner of Patents?
Barton challenged the notion that the Red Cross was not needed as there was no war by arguing its work should be extended in this way
What is to 'public calamities' or natural disasters?
Jackson earned his nickname 'Stonewall' by his courageous stand in this battle of the Civil War
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
What are telegraphy from a moving train, the electric railroad, and the incandescent lamp?