The network Barton believed, had to be disentangled from the bureaucracy of the War Department and the U.S. Sanitary Commission Her work of soliciting and distributing supplies and nursing the wounded was grueling and endless She once complained to a friend i cannot tell you how many times I have moved with my whole family (the Army) of a thousand or fifteen hundred and with a half hour’s notice in the night. Her efforts however were much appreciated at battle sites especially Antietam and Fredericksburg. At war’s end she set up an office to sort out the difficult business of locating and identifying prisoners missing men and the dead buried in unmarked graves. But the strain of her work took its toll and she was ordered to Europe by her doctor for a rest cure in 1869. While abroad Barton came into contact with the International Committee of the Red Cross. She participated in relief efforts during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-1871, but was forced into temporary retirement by ill health in 1872. After recovering, she campaigned to establish an American branch of the Red Cross, despite government resistance arising from fears of foreign
The network Barton believed, had to be disentangled from the bureaucracy of the War Department and the U.S. Sanitary Commission Her work of soliciting and distributing supplies and nursing the wounded was grueling and endless She once complained to a friend i cannot tell you how many times I have moved with my whole family (the Army) of a thousand or fifteen hundred and with a half hour’s notice in the night. Her efforts however were much appreciated at battle sites especially Antietam and Fredericksburg. At war’s end she set up an office to sort out the difficult business of locating and identifying prisoners missing men and the dead buried in unmarked graves. But the strain of her work took its toll and she was ordered to Europe by her doctor for a rest cure in 1869. While abroad Barton came into contact with the International Committee of the Red Cross. She participated in relief efforts during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-1871, but was forced into temporary retirement by ill health in 1872. After recovering, she campaigned to establish an American branch of the Red Cross, despite government resistance arising from fears of foreign