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home | newest check | boards | help index | log | ps | userlogin | send sysop | slog | status forward | bcm news | users | version | remove cookieKF5JRV > TODAY 21.05.26 17:52l 26 Lines 1261 Bytes #7 (0) @ WW BID : 25793_KF5JRV Subj: Today in History - May 21 Path: JH4XSY<JE7YGF<LU4ECL<LU9DCE<VE3CGR<WG0A<N2MH4<N2MH<NS2B<KF5JRV Sent: 260521/0837Z 25793@KF5JRV.#NWAR.AR.USA.NA BPQ6.0.24 In Washington, D.C., humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons found the American National Red Cross, an organization es tablished to provide humanitarian aid to victims of wars and natural disasters in congruence with the International Red Cross. Barton, born in Massachusetts in 1821, worked with the sick and wounded during the American Civil War and became known as the � 廣ngel of the Battlefield窶� for her tireless dedication. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln commissioned her to search for lo st prisoners of war, and with the extensive records she had compiled during the war she succeeded in identifying thousands of t he Union dead at the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp. She was in Europe in 1870 when the Franco-Prussian War broke out, and she went behind the German lines to work for the Internat ional Red Cross. In 1873, she returned to the United States, and four years later she organized an American branch of the Inter national Red Cross. The American Red Cross received its first U.S. federal charter in 1900. Barton headed the organization into her 80s and died in 1912. Solomons served alongside her as vice president for 12 years. 73 de Scott KF5JRV Pmail: KF5JRV@KF5JRV.#NWAR.AR.USA.NA Email KF5JRV@gmail.com
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