. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. Eugene Hernandez Captain,Edward Stapp first and Gabe Gazell second lieutenants. Itwas in line in the Flower Battle fete parade on April 21, 1898,the anniversary of San Jacinto battle and the day on whichPresident McKinley issued his proclamation declaring warby the United States against Spain. The Zouaves happened 148 Combats and Conquests of Heroes to be briefly halted before the telegraph office when a bulletinwas posted there announcing the war declaration. Unanimouslythe company voted to volunteer for service and instructed itscaptain
. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. Eugene Hernandez Captain,Edward Stapp first and Gabe Gazell second lieutenants. Itwas in line in the Flower Battle fete parade on April 21, 1898,the anniversary of San Jacinto battle and the day on whichPresident McKinley issued his proclamation declaring warby the United States against Spain. The Zouaves happened 148 Combats and Conquests of Heroes to be briefly halted before the telegraph office when a bulletinwas posted there announcing the war declaration. Unanimouslythe company voted to volunteer for service and instructed itscaptain at once to tender the President its military services whichwas done forthwith and the tender accepted. This companywas the first to so volunteer and to have its ofter accepted bythe President. All of its members but one, went to and throughthe war. Many men offered and paid high premiums to be-come members and march off with it. When the Belknaps infantry company marched away fromSan Antonio at the same time that the Zouaves did, going to. CAPTAIN SAM MAVERICK. the war, the Belknap company carried w^ith it a Texas flagpresented by Elsa Weiss, grand daughter of Colonel Zouaves then carried no flag, but a short time after thelatter company left home the mothers, sisters, wives and sweet-hearts of its members met and resolved to send them one. Iwas selected to carry it to them to Camp Coppinger, SpringHill, Alabama, near Mobile where, with ten thousand othertroops, the Zouaves were encamped. When I discharged thisduty Mrs. Blair, formerly Miss Weir, a daughter of San Antonio,held the banner during the delivery of my presentation its conclusion one of the two bands present played, ThevStar Spangled Banner, while the other at the end of the res- Combats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes 149 ponse by Captain Hernandez played, The Old FollvS at Home,both airs being very appropriate to the occasion. Zouave Flag Presentation Address. My poem, The Zouaves Flag, publ
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