The Red Cross : in peace and war . signed tome by Major La Garde. There were six tables in the tent, which werein charge of the following surgeons: Drs. Fauntleroy, Ireland, Nan-crede, Munson, Parker, Howard and myself, some coming later thanothers. The work continued all night, each operator having one assis-tant and one of the Sisters at his table, continuing all of the followingday. As the wounded came down in numbers, and there were not cotsfor them, thej had to be left in any position around the ground. MajorLa Garde and Chaplain Gavitt were at all times kept busy having longflies put up
The Red Cross : in peace and war . signed tome by Major La Garde. There were six tables in the tent, which werein charge of the following surgeons: Drs. Fauntleroy, Ireland, Nan-crede, Munson, Parker, Howard and myself, some coming later thanothers. The work continued all night, each operator having one assis-tant and one of the Sisters at his table, continuing all of the followingday. As the wounded came down in numbers, and there were not cotsfor them, thej had to be left in any position around the ground. MajorLa Garde and Chaplain Gavitt were at all times kept busy having longflies put up to protect them in case it should rain. Every moment news of another battle was expected; the experi-ence of the first, with no better means as yet at hand, was a matter ofgreat concern and worry to all present. Suggestions were made anddiscussed. Finally it was agreed to request more Red Cross aid bytelegraph. A call for one hundred Sisters was suggested, and was consulted in the matter. We had fifty trained nurses and. Copyright, 1898, by Clara Barton. A GROUP OF RED CROSS SISTERSThe four sisters of the New York Red Cross Hospital of Dr. and Mrs. Lesser, who nursed sick reconcentrados and their orphans in Havana, andafterward assisted the surgeons on the ships and in the hospitals of Siboney indressing the wounds of Cuban, Spanish and American soldiers and sailors, untilthey fell victims of the fever and want into hospital themselves.
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