The Red Cross - in peace and war (1906) (14594213068)

Identifier: redcrossinpeacew00bartrich (find matches)

Title: The Red Cross : in peace and war

Year: 1906 (1900s)

Authors: Barton, Clara, 1821-1912

Subjects: American National Red Cross Red Cross and Red Crescent -- History

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : American national Red cross

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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CUBA AND THE CUBAN CAMPAIGN. 583 Neither for love nor money could transportation be gotten. I did,however, near the last, obtain the use of a leaky lighter for two hoursto get off some mules, but I might specify that it was on neither of theabove considerations. Some reporter is responsible for the statement that a large chipseen floating near the dock that morning had been seized. While itmight not be possible to verify this statement by actual facts, it was nocso very far out of the way in theory. These were the last days of General Shafter in Santiago, who was,as he had at all times been, the kind and courteous officer and gentle-man. General Wood, alert, wise and untiring, with an eye single to thegeneral good of all, toiled day and night. The government warehouses were so filled with supplies that thereseemed no room for more. The harbor filling with merchant ships forthe trade, would soon come to regard with a jealous eye any body ofpersons who dispensed anything without price t

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