This monument to Clara Barton is on the site of the notorious Andersonville prison.
Clara Barto,n who founded the International Red Cross, also organized an office dedicated to finding missing soldiers after the Civil War. Barton personally spent the summer of 1865 helping find, identify, and properly bury 13,000 individuals who died in the Andersonville prison camp, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Georgia. She and the man, a prisoner who wrote down the name, date of death and unit of each of the more than 13,000 who died here, worked just after the camp was closed. So today there are rows of tombstones with names on them rather than the usual for a Civil War cemetery of “Unknown Soldier.”
“Then a despised Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him.