JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
Please excuse non-Civil War content, except that an awful lot of it was the result of the Civil War. Well, all of it- thank you Clara- again. And again and again and again.
"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 Battlefield" 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. "
This thread is the result of 2 other threads, both mentioning the Daughters of the Confederacy- one of which mentions an astonishing amount of funds raised and directed towards Europe in the throes of war- preWW1 and during WW1. Incredible. I don't want to get all preachy, but in a day when we seem to be waging war on just about everyone here in our own country- this idea of making ourselves responsible for human suffering where it occurs just knocks my socks off. The fact that my grgrandfather was a teeny, tiny part of this knocks the socks off underneath those.
Photos from his 1s tour, Serbia, a surgeon replacing some who had died of Typoid, having gotten there in the hairiest trip possible- traveling with the Lusitania, carrying the same things, through submarine infested waters. The Red Cross needed them, so they went.
Hospital Ward, Serbia
French ' Bomber', which included holding the bomb in one's lap, tossing it the heck overboard when you reached the target. My grgrandfather and his buddies would go watch the bombings, when off duty.
Result of bombings in village
Have to post more in different section- computer jumpy again!
"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 Battlefield" 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. "
This thread is the result of 2 other threads, both mentioning the Daughters of the Confederacy- one of which mentions an astonishing amount of funds raised and directed towards Europe in the throes of war- preWW1 and during WW1. Incredible. I don't want to get all preachy, but in a day when we seem to be waging war on just about everyone here in our own country- this idea of making ourselves responsible for human suffering where it occurs just knocks my socks off. The fact that my grgrandfather was a teeny, tiny part of this knocks the socks off underneath those.
Photos from his 1s tour, Serbia, a surgeon replacing some who had died of Typoid, having gotten there in the hairiest trip possible- traveling with the Lusitania, carrying the same things, through submarine infested waters. The Red Cross needed them, so they went.
Hospital Ward, Serbia
French ' Bomber', which included holding the bomb in one's lap, tossing it the heck overboard when you reached the target. My grgrandfather and his buddies would go watch the bombings, when off duty.
Result of bombings in village
Have to post more in different section- computer jumpy again!
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