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Title: A Story of the Red Cross
Glimpses of Field Work

Author: Clara Barton

Release Date: October 10, 2009 [EBook #30230]

Language: English

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A STORY OF THE RED CROSS

[Illustration: CLARA BARTON

From a photograph taken in St. Petersburg in July, 1902, showing the
decorations conferred upon her by the Czar and the Empress Dowager]

A STORY OF THE RED CROSS

GLIMPSES OF FIELD WORK

BY

CLARA BARTON

FOUNDER OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS AND PRESIDENT, 1881-1904

[Illustration: Logo]

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
MCMIV

COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

_Published, June, 1904_

PREFACE

Since the foundation of the Red Cross in America, many direful
calamities have afflicted the country. In each of these visitations the
Red Cross has acted in some degree as the Almoner--the distributer and
organizer--of the bountiful measures of relief that have been poured out
by the American people.

Its work has been accomplished quietly and without ostentation. All the
relief has been administered--not as charity--but as God-sent succor to
our brothers and sisters who have been overwhelmed by some mighty
convulsion of the forces of nature.

The wreckage has been cleared away, the stricken people have been
wisely, tenderly, and calmly guided out of panic and despair on to the
road of self-help and cooperative effort to restore their shattered
homes and broken fortunes; and then the Red Cross has retired as quietly
as it came, and few, outside of the people immediately concerned, have
realized the beneficent powers of help and healing that have fallen like
a benediction upon the stricken wherever that sacred symbol of humanity
has made its way.

It is my thought that a brief account of the work of the Red Cross