The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 4, October 1909)American National Red Cross
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The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 4, October 1909)
American National Red Cross
American National Red Cross -- Periodicals; Red Cross and Red Crescent -- Periodicals
SIR: I got your address from clipping herewith from our _Minneapolis
Journal_. I write for a copy of the last report of your organization.
I am, so far as I know, the sole survivor of the original “Auxiliary
Relief Corps” of the U. S. Sanitary Commission, a corps organized by the
commission in the winter of 1863-64, and taking the field with Grant’s
movement on Lee, May, 1864, its first entry into the personal relief work.
In January, 1865, I put the Geneva Cross, now the Red Cross, on our corps
of some fifty young men attached to the base hospitals of the armies of
the Potomac and the James, its first display upon any organized body of
men on any field in the world. The “San. Com.” had already been sufferers
from lack of this protective emblem of neutrality.
Such reports, etc., as may give me a notion of the present condition of
this now assured success, the Red Cross of America, I shall be grateful
for.
I am, sir,
ANSON M. SPERRY.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mr. Leighton, President of this State Branch, has sent to the editor of
the BULLETIN a copy of an excellent essay on the Red Cross, written by a
young man of the Antrim High School, and suggests that local Red Cross
Divisions offer prizes for the best essay written on the Red Cross in
their respective high schools, which seems to us an excellent idea. We
regret that lack of space prevents our printing the essay referred to
above.
NEW YORK.
A large and enthusiastic meeting in the interest of the American National
Red Cross was held in Florence Nightingale Hall, Presbyterian Hospital.
Miss Mary E. Gladwin, Superintendent of the Woman’s Hospital, presided,
and addresses were made by B. O. Satterwhite, Mrs. W. K. Draper, Mrs.
Charles C. Stevenson, and Mrs. F. J. Brockway.
The purpose of the meeting was to enlarge the general membership and
to increase the number of nurses enrolled. The speakers especially
urged nurses to enroll now, because of the approaching Hudson-Fulton
celebration, during which the American National Red Cross expects to
maintain twenty-one relief stations, six army tents, and an automobile
ambulance service, with nurses in attendance.
It was announced that the Mills Training School had decided to affiliate
with the Red Cross nurses’ organization, and the announcement was
received with much applause, for, as the chairman explained, there had
been a dearth of good male nurses in the Red Cross.
RHODE ISLAND.
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