A story of the Red cross : glimpses of field work / by Clara Barton.

  • Clara Barton
Date:
1904
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Credit: A story of the Red cross : glimpses of field work / by Clara Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prospect of any, and no helpful connection with or acknowledgment by the Government. Soon the news of “ Half the State of Michigan on Fire” called us to action on our own laws of civil relief. A little draft on the purse of the new, inexperienced president of the association paved the way for an agent to go to the field. Others generously joined, all reported to our friend and advocate, Senator Omar D. Conger, of Michigan. Some supplies were sent, a society or two formed to provide and forward them. The agents remained until the suffering was relieved, and thus the first field relief work of which we have any record in the United States was com- menced. Meanwhile, I had been asked by the Senate to write the history of the Red Cross, and show the official action taken by our Government on the acceptance of the treaty, which history the Senate would have printed at the Government printing- office. This volume I prepared as requested. A thousand copies were printed for information to the public, to be circulated by the society; but with no frank or other means provided, and with a
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