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 . d right uj) and keep onyour feet. Thats the only way to getwell, Iive minutes later, or at 3 oclock,he to])pled <i\-er into his comrades armsand was dead. The doctors called itheart failure. It seemed strange, for,really, the last thing to fai
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 . d right uj) and keep onyour feet. Thats the only way to getwell, Iive minutes later, or at 3 oclock,he to])pled <i\-er into his comrades armsand was dead. The doctors called itheart failure. It seemed strange, for,really, the last thing to fail was the sol-diers heart. Iletween death and burial, only a briefperiod intervenes in the tropics. At , clad in his full dress uniform, laidupon a stretcher and borne by liis com-rades, Joyce, Leonard. Martin, and Edward Sullivan, his bodyis carried to its resting place, where itis to sleep till his country disinters itfor removal to his home city. All of theofficers and men of the Emmets whoare in camp, march Ijeside the bier, andlisten to the words of Cliaplain Murphyas he pronounces the solemn words ofthe church over the grave. Then fol-low three volleys from the men of theCompany, and taps, sounded by Musi-cian Skerrett, eloquently breathe a sadfarewell to the fallen comrade. This was 268 \V()RCESTER IN THE SPANISH NDNESS OF COL. F E. PIERCE SCENE OF IIOIISONS EXCII.\N(;E AND THE the only mililary funeral observed inCuba, the effect by way of melancholybeing too much for the rank and Grady marched willi his men inhonor of Sullivan, and two days later laid beside the private. Time drags slowly along in theirCuban camps and the average mind canfind no g()(ul reason why the recallis not soimded in Washington. To besurj. there is an occasional visit to thecity of Santiago, and the traveler com-pares the Spanish place with those hehas known at home, and every daythanks his stars he was not born a .Span-ianl; but even this palls after
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