A story of the Red cross : glimpses of field work / by Clara Barton.

  • Barton, Clara, 1821-1912.
Date:
1904
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Credit: A story of the Red cross : glimpses of field work / by Clara Barton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sister Anna was in charge of the sick men, turned over to the Red Cross two days before, when army surgeons with troops were all ordered to the front. With 475 wounded men to feed there was not a camp-kettle to be found in which gruel could be prepared, coffee made or anything cooked, not a kettle of any sort to be furnished by the army. The whole camp outfit at Tampa in the way of cooking utensils must have been left behind. 44 But there was an overruling Providence when the 4 State of Texas ’ was loaded for Cuba. So far I everything needed has been found in the hold of this old ship, which deserves to have and will have a credit page in the history of the war in Cuba. There were kettles, charcoal braziers, and cooking utensils carried over to the Red Cross Hospital. To prepare gruel, rice, coffee, and various other proper and palatable dishes for forty or fifty sick men by the slow process of a charcoal brazier, tea- kettle, and boiler is by no means easy cooking. But to prepare food for 475 wounded men, some of whom had had nothing to eat for twenty-four hours, cooking over a little charcoal pot is some- thing that one must take a 4 hand in ’ to fully appreciate. 44 There was the feeling as if one were dazed and unnatural to hear American soldiers, men from