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 Gary
Scott is a National Park Service researcher, lecturer,
and architectural historian. He received his BA from Southwestern
University, MA from the University of North Carolina, and
has taught extensively.
Recently, his talents and expertise were called upon to verify
items found in a building which appeared to have been used
by Clara Barton after the Civil War as an office to locate
missing soldiers. The office building, originally scheduled
for demolition, is located in downtown Washington DC. Gary
was able to identify records found in a crawl space of this
building, and verified that they indeed belonged to Clara Barton.
Among these items were the actual lists of the names of missing
soldiers that she compiled, Civil War era newspapers, 19th-century
wallpaper remnants, clothing, and other Civil War period artifacts.
Barton's efforts eventually enabled her to go to Andersonville
and identify and mark many of the graves of the over 13,000
prisoners who died there. Just as Clara Barton identified the
missing soldiers, Gary Scott identified these records which
had been lost.
Photo by Susan Dennis
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