A Story of the Red Cross

Clara Barton takes the reader along with the American Red Cross during its early days of disaster response. Anyone who has ever heard of The Johnstown (PA) Flood, the turn-of-the-century devastation of Galveston, or the Port Royal, South Carolina disaster will learn how the Red Cross response gave people hope for recovery. The basic principles Barton used to guide the field work more than one hundred years ago still provide the foundation for the work the American Red Cross continues to do in no less challenging situations today.