BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Clara Barton’s Red Cross Ambulance, 1898

DC -- Natl Museum of American History -- Exhibit: Clara Barton’s Red Cross Ambulance, 1898:

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Description of Pictures: Clara Barton’s Red Cross Ambulance, 1898
This ambulance is one of eleven vehicles purchased by the Central Cuban Relief Committee of New York for use by Clara Barton and the American National Red Cross. The committee sent the ambulance to Camp Thomas, an army debarkation camp in Chickamauga, Georgia, before the 1898 outbreak of the Spanish-American War. The Red Cross nurses at Camp Thomas helped care for U.S. Army soldiers called to Cuba, many of whom suffered that summer from typhoid. After the war, the Red Cross sent this ambulance to Clara Barton for use at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland, the organization’s headquarters and distribution center for relief supplies.
As the founding director of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was no stranger to battle but she loathed it. “The war side of war could never have called me to the field,” she explained. “I hate it. Only the desire to soften some of its hardships and allay some of its miseries ever induced me . . . dare its pestilent and unholy breath.”

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1. SIAHCB_170529_06.JPG: Clara Barton's Ambulance, 1898-1904 This ambulance is one of eleven vehicles purchased in 1898 by the Central Cuban Relief Committee of New York for use by Clara Barton and the American National Red Cross. The committee sent the ambulance to the Red Cross Headquarters at Camp Thomas at Chickamauga, Georgia, before the outbreak of the Spanish-American War. There the Red Cross helped care for US Army soldiers called to Cuba. After the war, Barton used the ambulance at her Glen Echo, Maryland, home, which served as Red Cross headquarters, storehouse, and distribution point for relief supplies. Ambulance and mule parked outside Camp Thomas headquarters of American National Red Cross, Chickamauga, Georgia, 1898.
2. SIAHCB_170529_10.JPG: Ambulance and mule parked outside Camp Thomas headquarters of American National Red Cross, Chickamauga, Georgia, 1898.
3. SIAHCB_170529_14.JPG: Clara Barton, the Civil War's "Angel of the Battlefield," founded the American National Red Cross in 1881 as a sister organization of the International Red Cross. In addition to providing humanitarian aid in times of war, Barton envisioned a peacetime mission for the organization. From 1881 to 1904, Barton led the American Red Cross, aiding victims of natural disasters, medical emergencies, and catastrophic accidents including drought, floods, hurricanes, famine, fires, and epidemics. It wasn't until the Spanish-American War in 1898 that American Red Cross volunteers entered a war zone, but they have been part of every American war effort since then.
4. SIAHCB_170529_17.JPG: Clara Barton at her home and American National Red Cross headquarters office, Glen Echo, Maryland, 1904.
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Please note: In July of 2011, the Clara Barton Ambulance was replaced as the 3rd Floor East Landmark Object by the Civil War Draft Wheel.
This ambulance is one of eleven vehicles purchased by the Central Cuban Relief Committee of New York for use by Clara Barton and the American National Red Cross. The committee sent the ambulance to Camp Thomas, an army debarkation camp in Chickamauga, Georgia, before the 1898 outbreak of the Spanish-American War. The Red Cross nurses at Camp Thomas helped care for U.S. Army soldiers called to Cuba, many of whom suffered that summer from typhoid. After the war, the Red Cross sent this ambulance to Clara Barton for use at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland, the organization’s headquarters and distribution center for relief supplies.
As the founding director of the American Red Cross, Clara Barton was no stranger to battle but she loathed it. “The war side of war could never have called me to the field,” she explained. “I hate it. Only the desire to soften some of its hardships and allay some of its miseries ever induced me . . . dare its pestilent and unholy breath.”
The above was from http://americanhistory.si.edu/press/fact-sheets/clara-barton%E2%80%99s-red-cross-ambulance-1898
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