Ellis Library & Reference Center librarian Doris Sheldon is looking for Monroe County women who served as Red Cross war nurses. Can you help?

The week after the Civil War broke out in April 1861 ... B.F. Tillinghast, an American Red Cross supporter, with Barton and Russian Adm. Nikolai Kaznakoff in St. Petersburg, Russia, during ...

The partnership traces back to Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, who during the Civil War worked tirelessly to support soldiers, identifying over 22,000 missing service members.