A.Page.
Address by Clara Barton to the President, Congress, and People of U.S.[60]
Address by Clara Barton: “What is Significance of Red Cross in its Relation to Philanthropy?”[97]
Address by Clara Barton to Congress[666]
Accession of U.S. to Treaty of Geneva and Additional Articles of Navy[80]
Adhesion of U.S., translation from International Bulletin, April, 1882[87]
Articles of Red Cross Treaty, or the Convention of Geneva[57]
Articles, additional, of Oct. 20, 1863[74]
American Amendment of Red Cross[383], [668], [681]
Appia, Dr. Louis[23], [48], [61]
Aguadores, shelling of[561], [645]
Americans advised to leave Havana, April 9[549], [603]
Amputations few[593]
Army Surgeons Accept Red Cross Help[560], [562], [588], [589], [590], [615], [616], [645], [647]
“As the Sun Went Down” (Poem)[679]
Auxiliaries[474–480]
Austrian Committee[31]
ARMENIAN RELIEF FIELD, 1895–96:
Red Cross requested to take charge of relief[275]
Armenia, conditions in[276], [279], [320]
Turkey, signatory power to Red Cross Convention of 1864[276]
Public gatherings in the United States, effect of[276]
Obligations of neutrality imposed upon the representatives and workers under Geneva Treaty[277], [279], [280]
Red Cross forbidden to enter Turkey by Turkish Minister in Washington[277], [278]
Turkish Minister’s action politically justifiable[277]
Red Cross pledged to go to Turkey[277]
Red Cross sails from New York, Jan. 22, 1896[277]
Dr. Hubbell dispatched to Constantinople[278]
Conference with Missionary Board at Constantinople[278]
U.S. Minister A.W. Terrell[278], [279], [299], [314]
Conference with Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tewfik Pasha[278]
Plan of Relief outlined to Turkish Minister[279]
Permission to work and protection of Turkish Government assured[280]
Preparations for dispatching agents begin[283]
Relief delayed by denunciatory utterances in the U.S.; sample; “Pro-Armenian Alliance”[283]
Currie, Sir Phillip, suggests Southern Route[284], [288]
Expeditions start via Alexandretta (Iskanderun)[285]
Doubts and discouragements from home[285]
Massacre at Killis, Turkish Government anxious[286]
Letter to Frances Willard[286]
Zeitoun and Marash epidemics[287], [335], [350], [353], [354]
Harris, Dr. Ira, expedition of, and report[287], [294], [336], [350]
Perplexing cablegrams from U.S.[288]
Cabled American Committee that Red Cross will finish field alone[289]
Letter to Red Cross officer, P.V. De Graw, in U.S.[289]
Course of expeditions[290]
Shattuck, Miss Corinna, at Oorfa[293], [335]
Kimball, Dr. Grace, Bitlis[293]
Expeditions reach Harpoot[293]
Typhoid and typhus in Arabkir[293], [337], [338]
Fifth expedition[294]
Harpoot[293], [295], [337]
Diarbekir[295]
Farkin[295]
Furnishing tools for building and harvesting[295]
Wood, Chas. King[296], [297], [334], [335], [337], [356]
Wistar, E.M.[334], [335], [345], [356]
Gates, Rev. C.F., D.D.[296]
Cattle for plowing and planting[296]
Return of expeditions from Asia Minor[297], [298]
Balance of funds placed with W.W. Peet, Treasurer[297]
Peet, W.W.[297], [298], [299], [324]
Hardships endured by our men[297]
Dwight, H.O., D.D.[298], [315], [324]
Green, Jos. K., D.D.[298]
Hamblin, Dr. Cyrus[299]
Washburn, Geo., D.D.[278], [299], [324]
Selamlic[299]
Time spent socially in Constantinople[299]
Respects paid to new Turkish Minister to U.S., Moustapha Tehsin Bey[299]
Decoration and diploma, Armenian and Turkish[300], [303]
Returning home[304]
Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden, visit to[304]
Constantinople massacres renewed, and Red Cross proposed to return, if needed[305]
Distances and difficulties of travel, transportation and communication in Turkey[305]
Turkish telegram[307]
Funds, never embarrassed for[307]
Methods of work, general[310]
Difficulties of relief committees at home, and causes[310], [313]
The Press and contributors[313]
(To the) Government at Washington, and To the U.S. Legation at Constantinople[313]
Ambassadors and representatives of other nations[315]
Commendatory[315]
“The Independent,” report[315]
“Marmora,” poem[319]
Conditions in Armenia, summary of[320]
Financial Secretary’s Report, Armenia:
Turkish money, intricacies of, and varying values[324]
Post, Dr. Geo. E., letter of[324]
Para, copper coin, value, one-tenth cent[325]
Piaster, equal forty para, about, 4½ cents[325]
Lira, gold[325]
Volunteer aid[326]
Money, banking, express[326]
Bakshish[326]
Method and manner of distribution[327], [328]
Raising of funds, popular impression and actual experience in[329]
Balance sheet[333]
General Field Agent’s Report:
Preparations for interior travel[334]
Fuller, Rev. Dr., Aintab[334], [335]
Killis[334]
Aintab[335]
Red Cross methods[328], [329], [335], [336], [339], [345], [355]
Marash filled with refugees and epidemics prevailing[335]
Marash, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Macallum[336]
Surrounding country pillaged, people killed[335]
Trail route, Marash to Harpoot[336]
Marash without foods or medicines[336]
Arabkir epidemic[294], [337]
Hintlian, Dr. Hagop[338], [339]
Bush, Miss Caroline E.[338], [339]
Arabkir, welcome to[338]
Egin City and Aghan villages[343], [344]
Gratitude of people[343]
Barnum, Rev. H.N.[346]
Post, Dr. Geo.[350]
Tribute to Red Cross non-sectarian methods, by Dr. Harris[355]
Returning expeditions[356]
B.
BARTON, CLARA, LETTERS AND CORRESPONDENCE:
Autograph translation of Mr. Moynier’s letter to President of U.S., on adoption of treaty[37]
To E.M. Camp, Ed. “Erie Dispatch” (The Little Six)[130]
To Ed. “Charleston News and Courier,” subject, Sea Island Relief[268]
To Sea Island Committeemen, planting[273]
To Frances Willard, Armenian relief[286]
To P.V. De Graw, Armenian relief[289]
To Admiral W.T. Sampson, Cuban relief, entering Havana[370]
To Cuban Relief Committee, New York Cuban relief[374]
To Surgeon-Major Louis A. Le Garde, Siboney Hospital[560]
To S.E. Barton (cable), Siboney[562]
To Admiral Sampson, entering Santiago[574]
To Capt. Chadwick, flagship “New York,” entering Santiago[575]
To R.A. Alger, Secretary of War, transportation, Santiago to Havana[584]
To Capt. S.C. Wertsch, S.S. “Clinton,” thanks[631]
From J.G. Blaine, Secretary of State[41]
From Mr. Moynier, Pres. Comité International[81]
From “The Little Six”[132]
From A.A. Adee, Secretary of State, Cuban relief[362]
From S.E. Barton, Cuban relief[365]
From John F. Hoar, U.S. Marshal, Key West, Spanish prisoners[369]
From Admiral W.T. Sampson, Cuban relief, entering Havana[373]
From R.A. Alger, Secretary of War, Red Cross Treaty[395]
From C.H. Allen, Secretary of Navy, Red Cross Treaty[395]
From Surgeon-Major Le Garde, hospital work[560]
From S.E. Barton, transportation and nurses[562]
From Capt. Chadwick, flagship “New York,” entering Santiago[575]
From R.A. Alger, Secretary of War, transportation, Santiago to Havana[584]
From Capt. P.C. Wertsch, acknowledgment[631]
From members of Red Cross field staff on separating[632]
From Santiago Relief Committee[639]
From Duke of Palmella, Red Cross Intermediary[665]
From Spanish Red Cross,
Barton, Clara, reimbursed by Congress[78]
Barton, Clara, starts to Cuba Feb. 6, 1898[519]
Bangs, C.C., work at El Caney and death at Santiago[620], [650]
Baracoa and Sagua de Tanamo[623]
Battleship “Maine,” visit to[523]
Battleship “Maine,” blowing up of[524], [600]
Battleship “Maine’s” dead[526]
Beckwith, General A.[120]
Bell, Major Wm. Duffield, statement of conditions at front hospital, Santiago[616]
Bellows, Henry W. (effort to bring U.S. into treaty)[36]
Blaine, Secretary James G. (letter to Clara Barton acknowledging Mr. Moynier’s)[42]
Blaine, Secretary, transmits articles Geneva Convention to President[73]
Blanco, General, courtesy of, and co-operation[547], [643]
Bulletin, International[27]
C.
CAMPS AND CAMP WORK, extracts from reports of[484]
Atlanta District:
Camp Fort McPherson, Ga., Rev. Orville G. Nave, agent[420]
Atlanta Committee of Red Cross[421]
Red Cross work, observation on[421]
Camp Hobson, Ga., Lythia Springs[422]
Diet Kitchen, Miss Junia McKinley[422]
Chattanooga District:
Camp Thomas, Chickamauga, E.C. Smith, agent[408]
Typhoid fever in camp[411], [502]
Hospital “Sternberg”[412]
Hospitals “Sanger” and “Leiter”[412]
Nurses, great lack of, at first[411]
Nurses, 140 women graduate at one time[412]
Camp “Shipp,” Anniston, Ala.[413]
Hunters Island[507]
Jacksonville, Fla., District, Rev. Alex. Kent, agent[414]
Camp Fernandina[418]
Camp hospitals, conditions to be expected in[418]
Camp Miami[418]
Hospital, recuperating, Pablo Beach[416]
Long Island and New York District:
Long Island Relief Station, Mrs. A.G. Hammond, superintendent, [489], [490], 505
Camp Wyckoff, Montauk Point, L.I., Howard Townsend, agent, Dr. Brewer, assistant[426]
Bureau of Inquiry and Correspondence, [429]
Diet Kitchens[429], [505]
First work supplying water[426]
Hospital, railway emergency[430]
Quarantine officer, Dr. Magruder[429]
Troops arriving on transports (feeding of)[429]
Nurses, 140 Red Cross[429]
Supplies, promptness in ordering and receiving[426]
Camp Black, nurses at, 506
Porto Rico Field Work, Horace F. Barnes, agent, General W.T. Bennett, assistant[460]
Camp Barton[467]
Field agent, qualifications necessary for (Barnes)[470]
Method of work, [468]
Sick, large percentage of, in Porto Rico[468], [469]
Sickness, some of causes[469]
Tampa District, Dr. S.S. Partello, agent[493]
Washington, D.C., Districts:
Camp Alger, Washington, B.H. Warner, field agent[397]
Camp Bristow Diet Kitchen[400]
Camp Point Sheridan visited, Mrs. Mussey[399]
Fort Meyer Diet Kitchen, Dr. Mary E. Green[400]
Post Hospital, Washington Barracks[399]
Camps and camp regulations, suggestions[405]
Common sense criticism[405]
Green, Dr. Mary E.[400]
Ice plant auxiliary of New York[402]
Legion Loyal Women[403]
Medicine and supplies furnished promptly by Red Cross[399]
Nurses, experienced, needed[399], [401]
President and Secretary of War always interested in efforts of Red Cross[405]
Red tape hinders needed supplies[399]
Returning troops at Fortress Monroe, meeting of[401]
Troops en route, sick and well, care of[401]
Testimony of officers, surgeons and soldiers to work of Red Cross[403]
Tribute to the Red Cross[406]
Sag Harbor Home[507]
CAROLINA SEA ISLANDS HURRICANE AND RELIEF[197]
Hurricane, description of[197]
Hurricane, Admiral Beardslee’s description[203]
Sea Islands, geography, people, conditions, religion[203], [205], [209]
First local aid[202]
Red Cross called by the Governor of South Carolina[201]
Sea Islands Hurricane, needs and methods of relief[208], [210]
Relief work in Sea Islands Hurricane, district report of J. MacDonald, Hilton Head[211], [219]
Report of Mrs. MacDonald, clothing[220]
Report of warehouse and shipping department, Dr. E.W. Egan[222]
Medical and sanitary, Dr. E.W. Egan[228]
Report Beaufort District, Dr. J.B. Hubbell[232]
Report Charleston District, H.L. Bailey[244]
Report of clothing department, Mrs. Jos. Gardner and Mrs. H.L. Reed[252–263]
Sewing circles[257]
“Christmas Carol,” poem[261]
Summary of work done[268]
Leaving the field[268]
Circular letter to committeemen the year following, Feb., 1895[273]
Cobb, D.L.[360], [361], [420], [624], [655]
CUBA AND CUBAN RELIEF:
Casino, Havana[521]
Cuban Central Relief Committee, formation of[362], [363],[634]
Cuban relief, first efforts fail from political and other influences[516]
Cuban relief, numerous obstructions, political and sensational[514]
Spain addressed, requesting permission to distribute in Cuba[515]
Spain’s courteous and generous response, a courtesy carelessly overlooked by Americans[515]
Conference with President and Secretary of State on Cuban relief[516]
Cuba, conditions of country and people (Senator Proctor)[534]
Cuban Congressional Committee[546]
Cienfuegos[544], [643]
Cisneros, Miss[543]
Co-operation of Cuban physicians[643]
Cuban refugees, relief, Tampa and Key West[368]
Spanish-American War[360]
Cuba and the Cuban campaign[514]
Cuban Hospital, Siboney[557,] [614]
Cargo for north coast of Cuba, Mary E. Morse[624]
Chadwick, Capt., battleship “New York,” correspondence[575]
Clinics while waiting[551], [644],[645]
Clothing report, Miss Fowler[656]
“Clinton,” steamer furnished by Government for Red Cross transportation[583], [629]
“Clinton” leaves Havana, Sept. 1, 1898[585], [630], [652]
“Comal,” steamer arrives Havana[585]
Committees, central or national[27], [28]
Charities, difficulties in administering[166]
Conference of 1863, preliminary to the Convention of Geneva, of Aug. 22, 1864[23], [24], [28], [35], [36], [38], [51], [52], [53]
Conference, second, Oct. 20, 1868[74]
Congress votes $1,000 for printing[92]
Convention of Geneva, Red Cross, Aug. 22, 1864[24], [57]
Conclusion[681]
Correspondence in time of war[608], [644], [683]
“Crevasse,” escape from a[121]
Cyclone of Mississippi and Louisiana[112]
Cyclone of Mount Vernon, Ill., Feb. 19, 1888[143]
D.
Death rate from wounds, small[593]
Diet Kitchens[400], [402], [429], [505]
Distribution places, Havana[522], [600], [601]
Douglas, Robert, house and warehouse for Red Cross, Santiago[619]
Dufour, General[23], [50]
Dunant, Henri (Swiss)[23], [48]
Distribution, a criminal neglect in, the occasion of great disturbance in the United States[547]
E.
Egan, Dr. E.W. and Geo. Kennan, to the front, Santiago[646]
Egan, Dr. E.W., report[642]
El Caney and Firmeza refugees, supplies for[577], [619], [620], [649]
Emergency package, good results[593]
Explanatory note to readers[680]
F.
Federal Council of Switzerland[24]
Fields of work from 1881 to 1894[104]
Field drill[643]
Financial secretary, Cuban work, report[600]
Financial statement, Cuban relief[635]
First relief committee for Cuban help not successful[515]
Flood of Mississippi river, 1884[119]
Floods of Ohio and Mississippi, 1882 and 1883[104], [111], [112]
Floods, Ohio and Mississippi, 1884, government account of Red Cross work[128]
Food and supplies for sick soldiers, scarcity in Cuban campaign[595]
Food and hospital supplies, scarcity of, at front[616], [649]
Franco-Prussian war[25]
Forest fires of Michigan, 1881[108]
French, Alice (Octave Thanet)[177]
French Red Cross[33], [664]
G.
Garcia, General Calixto[560], [561], [614], [645], [646]
Geneva Convention Treaty in United States (translation from International Bulletin)[77]
German-Austrian war[25]
German Red Cross[32]
Government relationship to the Red Cross[377], [378], [379], [380], [383], [384], [395]
Guantanamo, June 25th[560], [610], [619], [645]
Guantanamo, Captain McCalla asks for 100,000 rations for Cubans[574]
Guantanamo supplies for Cubans declined for fear of yellow fever contagion[574], [619]
Governments that have adopted treaty, list[58]
Governmental recognition of the Red Cross[28], [80], [85], [91], [92], [377], [378], [379], [380], [383], [395]
Geddings, Surgeon (Egmont Key, Fla.)[632]
H.
Havana, arrived at, August 25th[584], [629]
Harbor clinics[606], [644], [645]
Havana custom duties, excessive, prevent unloading supplies[585], [629], [652]
Havana citizens, cordial co-operation in relief work[601]
Havana harbor, fine of $500 imposed[585], [627]
Havana, “Maine” victims at San Ambrosia Hospital[525]
Havana, Red Cross headquarters 528 del Cerro[526], [601]
Havana understood to be open port[583], [626]
History of Red Cross, preparation of, in 1883[96]
HOME CAMPS AND AMERICAN WATERS[362–513]
Homes of Hunter’s Island and Sag Harbor[507]
Hospital, Charleston city, nurses sent[496]
Hospital, Siboney, Cuba[557], [561], [590], [614]
Hospital, Fort Hamilton, nurses at[497]
Hospital, Fort Monroe, nurses sent[496]
Hospitals, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, nurses sent to[497], [502]
Hospital, Governor’s Island, nurses at[497], [502]
Hospital, “Leiter”[495]
Hospital at Siboney, opened July 2d[561], [590], [615]
Hospital ship “Solace,” Captain Dunlap[555], [610]
Hospital supplies from “State of Texas”[595]
Hospital supplies at Santiago[562], [651]
I.
Ice schooner “Mary E. Morse”[559], [580], [624]
Incidents of workroom[659–661]
Incorporation of American Red Cross[47], [94]
Intermediary offices of Red Cross[664], [665], [684]
Intermediaries in Spanish-American war:
Switzerland[384], [380]
Portugal[608], [644], [664], [665], [683]
France[664]
International Committee[27], [28], [667], [682]
International Committee, circular announcing formation of the American National Red Cross[91]
International Committee, medal of honor to Clara Barton[82], [83]
International conferences, representation in[668]
International communications, made through the International Committee[667], [682]
International Committee, twenty-five years’ record (illustration)[84]
International relations of National Committees[28]
Iron Cross of Prussia presented to Clara Barton[83]
Italian Red Cross[31]
J.
Jaruco, condition, relief (Cuba)[527]
Jaruco’s tribute to the dead of the “Maine”[530]
JOHNSTOWN FLOOD, PA., 1889[157]
Benevolent Union of Conemaugh Valley[164]
Johnstown flood, incidents[171-173]
Johnstown flood, “In Memoriam”[174]
Five o’clock tea[163]
Johnstown Finance Committee, extract from report, sheltering people[169]
Johnstown contributions, general fund, $1,600,000[168]
Johnstown’s farewell to Miss Barton[169]
Red Cross houses, warehouse and infirmary[164]
Johnstown houses, removal of[167]
Johnstown infirmary[164]
Poem, “The Dread Conemaugh”[170]
Jorrin, Senora J.S.[526],[530]
Jovellanos (Cuba)[654]
K.
Kennan, George[395], [587], [646]
Klopsch, Louis, assumes charge of distribution in Cuba[547]
L.
La Yocabo, Havana[521]
Landing supplies, difficulties, Siboney[563]
Late in Siboney, we cannot reach our ship[568], [650]
Le Garde, Major-Surgeon Louis A., request for Red Cross help[560], [589], [618], [645]
Le Garde, Surgeon-Major, testimonial to Red Cross physicians and nurses[599]
LESSER, Dr. A. MONAE (report of)[587]
Lesser, Mrs. A. Monae (Sister Bettina)[531], [545]
Liabilities to war in United States less than in other countries[35]
Liberality of transportation companies[364]
Los Fosos, Havana[521], [522], [545], [546], [602]
M.
MacClenny nurses, story of[147], [148]
Matanzas (Cuba)[546], [547], [653]
Matanzas, condition of hospitals and people[531]
Matanzas, Governor of, Francisco de Armas[532], [546], [547]
“Mattie Bell,” steamer on Mississippi[118]
Marianao hospital[655]
Mason, Robert[578], [621], [651]
Maxwell, Miss[502], [503]
McCalla, Captain[560], [610], [619], [645]
McKibben, General (military governor, Santiago)[621]
Membership in Red Cross[684]
Methods of relief[310], [328], [329], [370], [421], [426], [438], [484], [498], [579], [601], [607], [608], [615], [621], [626], [642], [643], [644], [654], [661], [683]
Method of collecting supplies for reconcentrados[363]
Method of sending nurses quickly[498]
Michaelson, H.[578],[579], [621], [651]
Military and medical preparations never adequate in battle[666], [683]
Mines, submarine, Santiago[575]
Mississippi and Louisiana cyclone[112]
Modus vivendi between Spain and United States[384-394]
Moynier, President Gustave[23], [50]
Moynier, President Gustave, letter to Miss Barton on adhesion of United States to treaty and status of American Red Cross Committee[81]
Moynier, President Gustave, letter of (autograph translation by Clara Barton)[37]
Moynier, President Gustave, letter of thanks to Clara Barton on receipt of official documents of treaty[90]
Moynier’s letter to Mr. Blaine[42]
Moynier, President, letter (Garfield’s indorsement)[40]
Moynier, President Gustave (letter to President of United States)[36], [41]
“Moynier,” steam launch[394]
N.
National committees, character of[668], [682]
National committees, relations of[28]
Navy, articles for[74]
Navy, courtesies of, to the Red Cross[367], [550], [555], [576], [578], [606], [610], [651]
Neutral countries[34]
Neutrality in Red Cross principles recognized[547]
Neutrality in war pledged[666]
Neutrality of wounded[683]
Neutrality of supplies and personnel[24]
Notes on the Red Cross[682]
Nurses[28], [30], [399], [401], [411], [412], [429], [435], [436], [492], [493], [494], [495], [496], [497], [502], [506], [590], [595], [596], [646], [663]
Nurses and assistants, more telegraphed for[590]
Nurses, lack of, at first[399], [411], [595], [646]
Nurses of the Red Cross, tribute to, by Hussey[677]
Nurses in operating tents[646]
Nurses for Siboney carried to Porto Rico[492]
O.
Objections to Red Cross answered[26]
Official instructions to officers, land and naval, concerning steamship “State of Texas”[367]
Officers in the field, kindness of[664]
Ohio river floods, 1884[115]
Ohio river flood, “Josh. V. Throop,” Red Cross steamer on Ohio river, 1884, 114[124]
“Olivette,” United States hospital ship[559]
Opinions of a major surgeon about women on the field[569]
Organization and methods of work (see methods)[27]
Orphanage in Havana[531], [545], [602], [642]
P.
Packing supplies for shipping, suggestions[656]
Palmella, Duke of (President Portuguese Red Cross)[664], [665]
Partello, Dr. S.S. (field agent at Tampa)[653]
Phinney, Miss, death of[495]
Pinar del Rio, Artimesa[540]
Plans for self-help formulated with co-operation of General Blanco[547]
Poem, “The Women who Went to the Field”[509]
Proctor, Senator Redfield[531], [533], [534]
Porter, Mrs. J. Addison[567], [569], [570], [643]
Portuguese Red Cross, intermediary between United States and Spain[608], [644], [664], [665], [683]
Postmaster Brewer at Siboney[568], [650]
Preparations for war[25]
Press, the support of[364]
President Arthur, declaration of the articles of navy[80], [385]
President Arthur explaining articles of navy[555]
President Arthur recommends treaty in message, December, 1881[72]
President Arthur, special message giving adhesion of United States to treaty and additional articles[80], [385]
President Arthur transmits treaty papers to Senate[73]
President Arthur’s proclamation of treaty of Red Cross[85]
President Garfield (Moynier’s letter presented to)[41]
President Hayes (Moynier’s letter presented to)[41]
President’s Cabinet the Board of Consultation for National Red Cross[92]
President McKinley’s call for reconcentrado relief[361], [516]
President McKinley requests Red Cross to return to Cuba with supplies for reconcentrados[549]
President McKinley asked for transportation, reply[583], [629]
Projet de concordat, propositions and resolutions[51]
R.
Ratifying power for Red Cross treaties—the Congress of Berne-Switzerland[667]
Reincorporation of American National Red Cross[94]
Relief of wounded soldiers, first proposition for[23]
Red Cross accepted by government[395]
Red Cross American amendment[383], [668], [681], [683]
Red Cross constitution[46], [94]
Red Cross, first in United States[36]
Red Cross history, 1882[96]
Red Cross, introduction into United States[668]
Red Cross incorporation, original[47]
Red Cross insignia[24], [58], [75], [76], [390], [667]
Red Cross insignia, protection of[671], [673]
Red Cross international conferences[176], [668]
Red Cross international committee[667], [682]
Red Cross intermediary offices[664], [683]
Red Cross in sanitary science[667]
Red Cross in floods of Ohio, Chicago “Interocean”[117], [119]
Red Cross, congressional committee needed[671–673]
Red Cross not branch of government[670]
Red Cross national committees, of other countries[667]
Red Cross national committees[668], [682]
Red Cross, objections to, answered[26]
Red Cross, peculiar institution, definition[25], [666], [672], [682], [683]
Red Cross of other nations—their co-operation in Spanish-American war, relief[662], [663]
Red Cross prestige in other countries[673]
Red Cross, relationship to government[378], [379], [380], [383], [384], [395]
Red Cross, recognition in United States tardy[61]
Red Cross should not be government bureau[672]
Red Cross, when government aid should be given[673]
Red Cross work no reflection on military medical departments[683]
Red Cross service accepted by Secretary of Navy[395]
Red Cross relief, Ohio river, reference to, in government report[128]
Red Cross “Farewell,” Evansville Journal, May 28, 1884[126]
Red Cross “Society”[682]
Red Cross of Dansville, N.Y., first local society in United States[107]
Red Cross Society of Rochester, N.Y.[109]
“Red Cross Work,” Evansville Journal, extract[119]
RED CROSS MEMBERSHIP[684]
Railway companies, courtesies and co-operation (Cuban)[643]
Ramsden, Fredk[577], [578], [621], [650]
Reception at Tampa[606]
Reconcentrados[360], [361], [528], [534], [537]
Reconcentrado relief, first shipments to Cuba[363]
Reconcentrado hospitals and clinics[531], [532], [642]
Reconcentrado relief, Red Cross called to[365]
Red Cross of other nations, co-operation in Cuban war[384], [386], [662], [664], [665], [683]
Red Cross services accepted by Cuban surgeons, Santiago[588]
Red Cross staff[601], [606], [609], [622], [623], [646]
Red Cross president arrives Havana, February 9, 1898, general conditions described[520], [600]
Refugees at Key West and Tampa[603], [605], [608], [644], 653
Reid, Mrs. Whitelaw[506]
Report of Dr. E.W. Egan[642]
Report of Miss Annie Fowler. Clothing[656]
Rough Riders’ battle, the first news of[557], [610]
“Red Cross Flag is Flying,” poem[359]
Red Cross Relief Committee of New York for the Spanish-American War:
Officers, members and subcommittees[473]
Treasurer’s report, May to December 1, 1898[474]
Auxiliaries, women’s committee on[474]
Auxiliaries, supplies contributed through supply committee, $80,000[477]
Supplies shipped by transports[470]
Auxiliaries, special work[478]
Auxiliary No. 1, ambulances, mules, launches, disinfectants, etc.[475], [478], [489]
Auxiliary No. 2, workrooms for families of enlisted men[475], [478]
Auxiliary No. 3, maintenance of trained nurses[412], [426], [429], [475], [478], [488], [489], [491]
Auxiliary No. 3, report[491]
Nurses sent to Santiago and Porto Rico[492]
Hospital ship “Lampasas”[492]
Nurses’ work in Tampa[493]
President and Secretary of War, committee’s conference with[494]
Auxiliary No. 5, equipped cots[475], [479]
Auxiliary No. 10, ice and ice plants[402], [475], [479], [486]
Auxiliary No. 17, supplies[475], [479]
Auxiliary No. 19, laundry[475], [480]
Auxiliary No. 22, garments, food, reading[475], [480]
Auxiliary No. 40, emergency hospital furnishings, soldiers’ families[475], [480]
California Red Cross:
Mrs. Willard B. Harrington, president[431]
Letter of secretary, Mrs. L.L. Dunbar[431]
Early work, supplementing government necessities[431]
Executive board[433]
Organization[434]
Red Cross delegate to Pacific coast, Judge Sheldon[435]
Manila, nurses sent to[435]
Transports, nurses and agents with[435], [436]
Field hospital to Manila[436]
Soldiers’ home built at Presidio[437]
Manner of work[438]
Identification medals[438]
Financial statement, consolidated, California Red Cross societies[439]
Red Cross of Oregon:
Mrs. Henry E. Jones, president; Mrs. F.E. Lounsbury, secretary[441]
Auxiliaries of Oregon, 449
Emergency funds[444]
Novel contribution of Lipman, Wolf & Company[447]
Red Cross of St. Paul, Minn.:
A.S. Talmadge, president; Miss Caroline M. Beaumont, secretary[425]
Red Cross of Washington State:
Mrs. John B. Allen, president; Miss Marie Hewitt, secretary[452]
State of Washington Emergency Corps, extract from report[458]
Seattle Red Cross:
Mrs. J.C. Haines, president; Mrs. H.C. Colver, secretary[455]
Tacoma Red Cross:
Mrs. Chauncey Griggs, president; Mrs. H.M. Thomas, secretary[456]
Walla Walla Red Cross:
Mrs. Lester S. Wilson, president; Mrs. Eugene Boyer, secretary[456]
Spokane Red Cross:
Mrs. Virginia K. Hayward, president; Mrs. A.J. Shaw, secretary[457]
RUSSIAN FAMINE:
Russian famine, extent of[176], [189], [192]
Russian climate[175]
Russian peasant, customs and religion[175], [176], [189], [193]
Russian famine, numbers affected 30,000,000[176]
Russian-American relief, beginning of[177]
Tillinghast, B. F[177]
Corn from Iowa, 225 carloads[177]
United States Congress, action regarding Russian famine[177]
The “Elks”[177]
Russian and American friendship[178]
“Tynehead” steamship[178], [180], [186], [187], [195]
International conference of 1892 at Rome[178]
Russian government, activity in famine[179], [191], [192]
Russian people, activity in famine[179], [191], [194]
Russian famine, official report, Honorable Chas. Emory Smith[179]
Russian appreciation of American help[180], [181], [187], [193], [196]
Bobrinskoi, Count Alexander[180], [181]
“Dimitri Donskoi,” royal naval flagship, at Philadelphia, anniversary of “Tynehead” in Russia[180]
Gifts from the Czar to American commissioners[181]
Testimony from peasants of Libeau[217]
Testimonial from nobility of St. Petersburg[181]
Hubbell, Dr. J.B., report[182]
Russian Red Cross, letter to president, General Kauffmann, with reply[182], [185]
“Tynehead,” arrival and unloading at Riga, 307 carloads[185], [186]
Nijni Novgorod[190]
Russian schoolmaster, incident[195]
Corn, questions of ocean transportation answered[195]
American distribution in Russia most satisfactory[196]
S.
Cuba and Cuban Campaign:
Sagua la Grande[542], [643]
Salaries[634]
Sampson, Admiral[367], [370], [373], [555], [574], [576], [610], [621]
Sampson, Admiral, letter concerning entrance to Havana[370]
Sampson, Admiral, letter to, concerning entrance to Santiago[574]
Sampson, Admiral, Red Cross reports to, off Santiago, June 25th[555], [574], [576], [610], [621]
San Luis and Holguin districts visited[623]
Santa Clara, Sagua la Grande[542], [643]
Santiago front, division hospital, Major Wood[563], [564], [616], [646]
Santiago, to the front of[563], [616]
Santiago, concerning entrance to, July 17, 1898[574], [575], [576], [578], [651], [652]
Santiago, conditions in[577], [639]
Santiago general relief committee[639], [651]
Santiago hospitals, clinic and dispensary[623], [651], [652]
Santiago fed[579], [621], [626]
Santiago, committee of women appointed[626]
Santiago, sailed from, August 21, 1898[574], [629]
Schley, Admiral[576], [578], [651]
Secretary of Navy, instructions concerning “State of Texas”[367]
Secretary of Navy accepts Red Cross service[395]
Secretary of State, letter, reconcentrado relief[361], [362]
Secretary of State[361], [362], [377], [385], [386], [388], [516]
Secretary of War[395], [396], [494]
Secretary of War, instructions concerning establishment of Red Cross camps[395]
Secretary of War arranged 2,000 tons relief supplies for Havana, requests Red Cross to distribute[584]
Shafter, General Wm., returns Spanish wounded prisoners to their friends (article XI)[570]
Siboney, American surgeons decline woman’s help, but Cubans accept[557], [588], [613]
Siboney, opening of Red Cross hospital[561], [590], [615]
Siboney, Kennan, Lesser, Elwell, go to front[558], [589]
Siboney burned[574]
“Sisters,” Red Cross[560], [588], [645], [646]
“Solace,” the first hospital ship under the treaty (see article XI, articles for navy)[591]
Sollosso, Dr. J.B.[652]
Spanish-American war[360]
Spanish authorities co-operate in Cuban relief[529], [547]
Spanish protection to Red Cross property[604]
Spanish prisoners, relief for, on captured vessels[551], [591], [607], [644]
Spanish hospitals at Santiago[622]
Spanish naval prisoners on transport “Harvard”[59]
Spanish prisoners treated and fed[596]
Spanish authorities, Havana, propose paying custom duties and distributing our goods[629]
Spanish prisoners, Portsmouth, N.H., and steamships, nurses to[506]
Spanish reception of Red Cross nurses in Spain[507]
Spanish money[634]
Spain, to the Red Cross of[663]
Steamship “State of Texas,” arrangements for sending[365]
Steamship “State of Texas,” correspondence relating to sending of[365]
“State of Texas” sails from New York, April 23, 1898[550], [605]
“State of Texas” reports to Admiral Sampson off Key West[606]
“State of Texas” leaves Key West for Santiago, June 20th[555], [609]
“State of Texas” under protection of navy[550], [606]
“State of Texas” goes to Jamaica for ice[618]
“State of Texas,” discharged July 22d[580], [622]
Steamer “San Antonio,” Cuban relief[653]
Supply committee, requisitions filled, from June 22d to December 1, 1898[480]
Supplies American-Cuban, 6,000 tons[634]
Surgeon-General, letter of, accepting services of women nurses[494]
Surgeons cannot get their supplies from transports (Santiago)[589]
Surgeons work by moonlight as precaution against sharpshooters[646]
Swiss government as intermediary[384], [386]
Sanitary commission of United States[31]
Services in time of war[30]
Services in time of peace[29]
Servian Red Cross, decoration[83]
Sick and wounded, improvements for[30]
Sign of neutrality[24], [58]
Society of Public Utility of Switzerland[23], [48], [50]
Solferino[23]
Southmayd, Colonel F.R., and New Orleans Red Cross[148]
Syracuse Red Cross[110]
Swiss Federal Council[24]
“Six, The Little,” story[130]
“Six, The Big”[134]
T.
Tampa during preparations for war[555], [643], [644]
Tasajo (jerked beef)[609]
Telegraph companies’ assistance[365]
Texas drought, 1887[134]
Texas drought, action of Congress vetoed[137]
Texas drought, report to President Cleveland[137]
Texas drought, state appropriation, $100,000[139]
Tolstoi on peasants and famine[174], [187], [188]
Thurston, Senator and Mrs.[546]
To the auxiliaries of the Red Cross[677]
To the committees of the Red Cross[676]
To Miss Barton, by her assistants, on dispersing[633]
To the nurses of the Red Cross, tribute (Hussey)[677]
To the Red Cross of Spain[663]
To the people, “a word”[13]
To the reader[681]
Treaty in U.S., persons who gave effective help in securing[89]
Treaty of the Red Cross, accession to, by U.S.[80], [85], [87], [385]
TREATY OF GENEVA:
Ambulances and hospitals Par. [I, 57]
Arms, incapacity to bear ” [VI, 58]
Brassard, regulation concerning ” [VII, 58]
Enemy, occupation by ” [III, 57]
Equipment of hospitals ” [IV, 57]
Evacuations, participants protected ” [VI, 58]
Flag, distinct and uniform ” [VII, 58]
Hospitals and equipments ” [IV, 57]
Houses sheltering wounde ” [V, 57]
Inhabitants assisting wounded ” [V, 57]
Property, personal, of staff ” [IV, 57]
Sick and wounded, care of ” [VI, 57]
Staff, medical and hospital ” [II, 57]
Wounded, delivery to outposts ” [VI, 57]
The “Additional Articles”:
Ambulances, definition of ” [III, 74]
Boats, assisting wounded and wrecked ” [VI, 74]
Cargo, neutrality of ” [X, 75]
Flag, distinctive, regulations ” [XII, 75]
Hospital ships ” [IX, 75]
Auxiliary Red Cross vessels, regulations ” [XIII, 76]
Military, how distinguished ” [XII, 75]
Merchant ships ” [X, 75]
Neutrality of vessels ” [IX, 75]
Neutrality of cargo ” [X, 75]
Officers, wounded, detention of ” [V, 75]
Property of staff ” [VII, 74]
Quartering troops ” [IV, 75]
Red Cross, auxiliary hospital ships ” [XIII, 76]
Sailors and soldiers, wounded ” [XI, 75]
Salary of neutral persons ” [II, 74]
Search, right of ” [X, 75]
Ships, hospital ” [IX, 75]
Auxiliary Red Cross ” [XIII, 76]
Military ” [XII, 75]
Staff, hospital and religious ” [VII, 75]
On captured ships ” [VIII, 75]
Staff, withdrawal of ” [I, 74]
Suspension of treaty, rights of ” [XIV, 76]
Troops, quartering of ” [IV, 74]
Vessels, neutral ” [IX, 75]
Wounded, detention and delivering of ” [V, 74]
Picked up by boats ” [VI, 75]
Sailors and soldiers protected ” [XI, 75]
Transportation of corn by water? Answered[193]
Transportation companies, generous assistance[364]
Transportation, difficulties in all kinds of[583]
Tribute to the Red Cross, by B.H. Warner[406]
Trocha[534]
Tug “Triton”[580]
Typhoid epidemic, Chickamauga[502]
U.
United States, action with the treaty, and additional articles[72], [80], [85], [385], [393]
United States accession to treaty of the Red Cross, March 1, 1882[80]
United States, tardiness in giving adhesion to treaty[36], [663]
United States Senate, first action towards adhesion of treaty, May, 1881[73]
United States, thirty-second nation to adopt treaty, and first to adopt the articles of navy[86], [87]
W.
Warehouse, San Jose, Havana[521], [600], [642]
Wertsch, Captain P.C., letter and reply[631]
Women’s auxiliaries of the Red Cross relief committee, report[491]
Women nurses[28], [30], [401], [411], [412], [429], [435], [436], [492], [493], [494], [590], [595], [596], [646]
Women nurses, testimony of army surgeons[403], [504]
Women nurses accepted by Surgeon-General[494]
Women’s work in foreign countries[28], [30]
Wounded, all available assistance requested[593]
Wood, General Leonard, military sanitary work[626]
Wood, Surgeon-Major, Red Cross surgeon[646]
Wounds, character of[593], [594], [595]
Wounds heal rapidly[593], [594]
Wounded of the “Maine” in hospital[525], [600]
Wounded, working among, at the front[564], [590], [616], [646], [649]
Y.
Yacht “Red Cross”[429], [559]
Yellow fever in Florida, 1888[147]
Yellow fever nurses, Howard Association of New Orleans[147]
Yellow fever nurses declined by superintending surgeon[147]
Yellow fever in Cuba[574], [650]
Yellow fever, first appearance at Siboney[596]
Yellow fever talk at the front and Siboney[573], [574], [617]
Yellow fever scare prevents landing supplies for Cubans at Guantanamo[576], [619]
Young, Miss, concerning Red Cross nurses[505]

Transcriptions of autograph documents.

[p. 40]

EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON.

Will the Secy
of State please
hear Miss Barton
on the subject
herein referred
to

J.A. Garfield
Mch 30, 1881.

[p. 165]

Clara Barton,
Prest. Nat. Red Cross of America.