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 . her exactly agreeable tohuman i)assengers. However, endur-ance was the badge of all soldiers inthose days, and, swung in hammocks,thev made the best of their plight,anxiously looking for the end of thetrip. There is employment for some ofthe stro
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 . her exactly agreeable tohuman i)assengers. However, endur-ance was the badge of all soldiers inthose days, and, swung in hammocks,thev made the best of their plight,anxiously looking for the end of thetrip. There is employment for some ofthe stronger ones in the hold as theylook up and identify the knapsackswhich are tumbled in helter-skelter. ihe saddest sound of the return tripis that of two bells for slowing down,that the body of some deceased com-rade might receive burial. No signalwas dreaded as that. Eleven times wasthere the lessened speed, that the deadmight be committed to the deep, andeight of the number were from theSecond Massachusetts. One. PrivateEarle E. Clark, was from the Welling-tons, and his body received oceanburial at of the 17th, the dayof his death. Though impressive, therewere circumstances attendant on someof the burials which left creepy sensa-tions among those beholding. Thus inone case the head-covering separated 204 VVOKCESTEK IX THE SPANISH .-3 1, E— ??^?^^ ° O .1 m o ;5 ^ WELLINGTON RIFLES, COMPANY H. 206 as the body was committed, and theghastly face of the dead seemed to lookimploringly upon the vessel and Com-pany. A major of the regulars had diedbefore leaving the Island, and an ef-fort was made to carry his encoffinedbody home, but decomposition becameso apparent and, withal, so otYcnsivethat burial was necessary. That thecoffin might sink the more readily alarge quantity of iron was added to thesame, but the formation of gases hadrendered the casket so buoyant that itwould not down and, as far as the eyecould follow it, there remained a largeportion of the ob
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