American messenger (7619) (14595494787)

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Title: American messenger

Year: 1843 (1840s)

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Subjects: American Tract Society Christianity

Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : American Tract Society

Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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e wounded behind the battle lines The two beautiful flags given her by her coun-try she later presented to Harvard College, andthey now hang, in her memory, over the doorsof its Memorial Hall. When the Civil War was over Clara Bartonwent abroad, and there for the first time sheheard of the Red Cross Society. In the war be-tween France and Germany, in 1870, she saw forthe first time the medical staffs of two opposingarmies working together in the care of thewounded soldiers. Wherever there was a battle,there she saw a squad of doctors and nurses inwhite, each with a cross of red on his or hersleeve, working back of the firing line to repairthe damage done by the bullets. They accom-plished so much in a short time that Clara Bar-ton was inspired with the idea of introducingthis same Red Cross in America, for she foundthat the ideals that had led the great women ofthe Civil War to work among both Northernersand Southerners were the same as those of theRed Cross—Humanity and Neutrality.

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A DISPENSARY BEHIND THE LINESWhere the Red Cross administers medical treatment to the children of the war zones who have been injured by bursting shells or in some other manner These cuts by courtesy of the Red Cross Magazine. Largely through her efforts, which extendedover five years, the Geneva treaty was signed bythe United States in 1882 and the AmericanRed Cross was established. This act was theachievement of her life. She was its firstPresident. To relate the story of her life-work, her hu-manitarian activities in the Spanish War, in thegreat Michigan forest fire, the Mississippi floodin 1882, the Johnstown flood, the San Franciscoearthquake, would more than fill all the col-umns of this paper. Its Work To-Day Once more the Red Cross is on the warbasis as it had not been since the Spanish War.But with what a difference this time! Thoseyears between the wars had been spent in organ-izing—in building up a Nursing Service where-by thousands of the best professional nurseswere rea

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1843

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