Clara Barton

[W. Gray]

The only county in Kansas named after a woman is Barton County, northwest of Wichita.

Great Bend is the county seat.

The county was named after Clara Barton, who founded the Red Cross.

However, when the county was named in 1872 the Red Cross was yet to be.

Barton County was named because of her contribution in the Civil War to the US Army via her US Sanitary Commission, which helped the Army with sanitation, good food, and clean air.

She also founded an organization that furnished medical supplies to wounded soldiers.

[Diane Amberg]

Did she allow smoking in the medical tents?

[W. Gray]

I wonder just how much smoking was done by Civil War troops?

In the movies every now and then you see someone smoking a pipe.

Bull Durham was supposedly around in 1860 but the Yankees probably would not have access to that.

If they had the habit, maybe it was chewing?

[W. Gray]

Answered my own question.

This was on a web site, which also said that smoking cigarettes was considered effeminate

Most of the tobacco processed and sold in the US (and CS) was plug tobacco, intended for chewing.  The US and CS military supplied it's soldiers with plug tobacco, so soldiers had to acquire cigars and pipe tobacco on their own.

Also found a site for Civil War reenactors which advised reenactors to contribute to the genuineness of what they were doing by bringing pipes rather than cigarettes.