On April 12, 1961, the Confederates terminated on Fortification Sumter which flagged the start of the Common War. President Lincoln required a volunteer armed force to ensure the national capital. Barton was instantly present to tend to the warrior's needs. She rapidly took a gathering of the general population who lived in the region and dispersed sustenance and other helpful articles that was given. She additionally kept in touch with her home group of Worcester requesting supplies for their children and sibling. While she got what she felt was a mind-boggling measure of things, the materials she expected to help these a great many men was not yet exhibit. Utilizing an ad speaking to individuals' Christian religion, she got such a variety of boxes of supplies that she needed to lease a distribution center to keep it all. What's more, what was not sent was purchased out of her own pocket cash to help "her young men". Barton moved from front line to combat zone, continually helping wherever she could and bringing along tremendously required supplies, gaining herself the title of "holy messenger of the war zone. After the war finished, she was enrolled to recognize and find missing fighters for the holding up