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KF5JRV > TODAY 21.05.19 13:31l 25 Lines 1182 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Today in History - May 21
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In Washington, D.C., humanitarians Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons
found the American National Red Cross, an organization established 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 “Angel of the
Battlefieldö for her tireless dedication. In 1865, President Abraham
Lincoln commissioned her to search for lost prisoners of war, and with
the extensive records she had compiled during the war she succeeded in
identifying thousands of the 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 International Red
Cross. In 1873, she returned to the United States, and four years later
she organized an American branch of the International 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.
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