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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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Here, in Amer-ica, few knew of the Red Cross. In the year1860 the great Civil War broke out in ourcountry. Care of the sick and wounded wasunder the charge of what was known as TheSanitary Commission. But aside from thisorganized group of men and women there weremany individual women who devoted their livesto the same cause. Among these were ClaraEarton, Dorothea Dix and Mother Bickerdyke. These women, touched with the enthusiasmof humanity, with heroic devotion to their serv-ice of mercy in the midst of dirt and diseasestayed, during the four years of the war, behindthe lines, nursing Northerners and Southernersalike. Mother Bickerdyke, known for her fearless-ness, one day summarily discharged a drunkensurgeon. When the surgeon appealed to GeneralSherman he sternly replied, If it was that wom-an who discharged you, I can do nothing foryou. She outranks me. When War Secretary Stanton asked DorotheaDix what the nation could do to thank her forher work she answered, I would like a flag!
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A BATTLEFIELD TRAMWAYIt takes miles and miles of tracks to keep the trenches supplied with adequatesupplies and munitions, as well as to move the 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

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