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This Day in Boston History
May 21st, 1881
American Red Cross

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During
the Civil War, North Oxford, Massachusetts native Clara Barton became
expert at gathering and delivering relief materials to union soldiers.
After the war she helped locate 20,000 missing soldiers, personally
answereing 60,000 letters requesting her assistance.
Once aquainted
with the International Red Cross, she became a ceaseless advocate to
form its U.S. Branch, which required acceptance of the Geneva Convention.
She facilitated approval of that treaty, and established the American
Red Cross on this day in Washington, D.C.
By 1904
dissension within the Red Cross and public scrutiny led Barton to resign
from her role as the volunteer President of the American Red Cross,
a role she fulfilled for its first two decades of operation.
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