Worcester in the Spanish War; being the stories of companies A, C, and H, 2d regiment, and company G, 9th regiment, , during the war for the liberation of Cuba, May-November, 1898, with a roster of ERShumway Camp, no30, Spanish War veterans, followed by a brief account of the work of Worcester citizens in aiding the soldiers and their families . the roughly paved nitions. The fare for the sick was notstreets of the citv, they come to the adapted to their wants, and they had towharf, onlv to find that the lighters are take the regular rounds of hardtack andnot on hand, had alread
Worcester in the Spanish War; being the stories of companies A, C, and H, 2d regiment, and company G, 9th regiment, , during the war for the liberation of Cuba, May-November, 1898, with a roster of ERShumway Camp, no30, Spanish War veterans, followed by a brief account of the work of Worcester citizens in aiding the soldiers and their families . the roughly paved nitions. The fare for the sick was notstreets of the citv, they come to the adapted to their wants, and they had towharf, onlv to find that the lighters are take the regular rounds of hardtack andnot on hand, had already the canned stuff, or nothing. The men fre-carrving of thr other regimmts of the ipiently had not strength to lirush offbrigade to the transptjrt .Mobile, which the flies which settled over their faces,drew too many feet of water to admit Those who cared for the sick were onlyof her to the dock. lUit a bit better off their patients,everything comes to him who waits. The grand start for home is made onand at last, bv means of the Laura the i_:; dinner call is unheedeil \ .\ nears the ves- theanxiety of the men to take a partingsel, but as usual there was something look atSantiago— wordbetween the men and fruition, for a is in English vernacular—but there is CITY GlARDS, COMIAiNY A. 67. nothing saint-like in the reflcctiims ofthe men of the Second as they steamaway. Thr(iu,t;h the neck of the bottled-up harbor the Mobile passes, close tothe sunken ^Merrimack, evidence ofLieutenant Holisons bravery, near thewrecked Reina Mercedes, tro|)hy nf thedeeds of July ^(\. and on yonder frown-ing height is El M<irro, grim reminderof days when suchljattlements were de-fenses. Xow. armed with her guns ofcentury make, the fort is scarcely bet-ter than a curiosity shop. The next day,as they steamed along towards home,there is seen in the distance a trace ofsmoke, which soon develops into a ves-sel, and, from the blackened cloudswhi
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