. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. Adelaide A. Calkins. Clara T. Leonard. In 1898 there was war between the United States andSpain, growing out of inhumanities practiced by the Spanishauthorities on the Cubans. The seat of war was the island ofCuba. One morning in May the Springfield companies ofthe Second Regiment, composed almost entirely of youngmen, some of them scarcely out of their boyhood, marchedfrom the State Arsenal through Main street to the railroadstation. How much th
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. Adelaide A. Calkins. Clara T. Leonard. In 1898 there was war between the United States andSpain, growing out of inhumanities practiced by the Spanishauthorities on the Cubans. The seat of war was the island ofCuba. One morning in May the Springfield companies ofthe Second Regiment, composed almost entirely of youngmen, some of them scarcely out of their boyhood, marchedfrom the State Arsenal through Main street to the railroadstation. How much the composition of the citizens hadchanged since the early days when they were almost all of THE SPANISH WAR 163 English or Scotch stock is shown by the fact that among thelist of officers and privates occur names that are Irish, Ger-man, Scandinavian, French, Italian and Hebrew. The regiment camped in Framingham and soon was on itsway to Florida, whence it was to embark. Merrily did thesoldiers sing Tramp, tramp, tramp the boys are marching;Cheer up, Cuba, we will come,. but once on Cuban soil theywere face to face with thehorrors of war. YoungArthur Packard, who firstenlisted at fifteen, was killedat the battle of El Boon, having beentransferred to the signalcorps, was sent up in awar balloon for observa-tions on the enemy at thesiege of Santiago. Theballoon, having been struck at a great height by fragmentsof a shell, fell, and young Boon was caught in a tree andentangled with its anchor and was afterwards dropped inthe water of a creek. He received severe injuries which provedfatal after his return to Springfield. There were others in these companies who met their deathson the battlefield or at the hands of exposure and disease,including Henry Macdonald, chief of the citys police. Theydied for the freedom of Cuba and their names are on the monu-ment at the foot of Round Hill. There was an old saying of ^tJBA U©^^ Arthur H. Packard. 164 HISTORY OF SPRINGFIELD the
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