Figure 8. — Ambulance before being restorkd 

 FOR EXHIBITION. Uscd at Camp Thomas, 

 Georgia, and later by Miss Clara Barton 

 at her home in Glen Echo, Maryland, it 

 was acquired by the American Red Cross 

 from private owners and loaned to the U.S. 

 National Museum. {Photo courtesy American 

 Red Cross.) 



lance, harness, and saddle be sent to the Red Causs 

 headquarters at Washington, while the other sup- 

 plies be sent to Havana, via Tampa. Acting on his 

 own suggestion, in a letter to Clara Barton he asked 

 if she might not like the ambulance sent to Washing- 

 ton for use at the headquarters. To this. Miss Barton 

 replied that she would like very much to have the 

 ambulance sent to her in Glen Echo and that it would 

 be very useful, provided it was not needed somewhere 

 else. Her check sent to pay for the expense of trans- 

 porting the ambulance was returned, and in ac- 

 knowledging receipt of the ambulance on December 9, 



18'i,S, Miss Barton said: "It wa.s must Ki'^cious and 

 lovely of you to send back that check of freight for the 

 ambulance. I did not know anything about it my- 

 self, only that I sent the money and had the ambulance 

 brought up, and your check comes to replace it. I 

 have not even had time to look at it yet; but I think 

 it is a very nice, strong thing to have, especially out 

 in the country where one does their own teaming and 

 besides, one can get sick very officially. Again I 

 thank you for it all." " 



° Clara Barton Papers (Library of Congress accession 10357, 

 box 37). 



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